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Focus versus Rail stacking Poll

Started Jun 11, 2019 | Polls thread
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Re: Focus versus Rail stacking Poll

xpatUSA wrote:

c h u n k wrote:

xpatUSA wrote:

deanimator wrote:

I use microscope objectives, so I don't have a choice. I HAVE to use a focus rail, in my case a Wemacro.

Thanks, I wasn't familiar with that genre. I should have made it clearer that I'm talking about simple objects like flowers, bugs, small artifacts, etc.

Many people use objectives for all of those subjects.

Pardon my ignorance but I don't understands "objectives". Are they the so-called close-up filters or the likes of the Raynoxes?

In a typical microscope, the main lens (nearest to the object) is called the objective. The image it produces is viewed through the eyepiece.

In macro photography, objectives are often used on their own, on bellows. But the "objective" in such as setup can be any short focus lens, not necessarily one for microscopes. So the objective is just any lens that is close to the object.

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