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Focus versus Rail stacking Poll

Started Jun 11, 2019 | Polls thread
deanimator Contributing Member • Posts: 719
Re: Focus versus Rail stacking Poll

xpatUSA wrote:

deanimator wrote:

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?

Neither. Google a picture of a microscope. Those cylinders protruding from the turret of he microscope are lens assemblies called "objectives". As a general rule, they have neither integral focus nor aperture mechanisms.

I see. So the "Many people" who "use objectives for all of those subjects" have gone out and bought fancy microscopes to shoot "flowers, bugs, small artifacts, etc".

I can't say that there is no 100:1 macro lens. I can say I've never heard of one. That's strictly the domain of microscope objectives... and electron microscopes.

I sense deliberate obfuscation, please desist ...

You seem very confused.

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