DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

A fly, an ichneumon wasp, and a basic question

Started Oct 16, 2020 | Questions thread
tiolon Regular Member • Posts: 329
Re: A fly, an ichneumon wasp, and a basic question
1

Columbusrat wrote:

Still working on the basics - I was trying manual focus, rocking backwards and forwards as I shot in machine-gun mode, using a 55-250 zoom with an extension. Today's lesson - with a zoom, even at f16, depth of field can be shallow enough that I miss the perfect shot if I move in and out too quickly - and I should have upped the iso as my bees were all fuzzy.

Question: would a Raynox macro adapter work better than an extension tube? I'm not going down the macro lens route just now as I want to be ready to skip from close to to further away depending on what I spot.

those visits to the garden are paying off! nice one!
i think that most of the macro/'micro' lenses focus from about 2:1 to infinity (there are some specialised lenses whose range of magnification is only for example 1:1 to 5:1). this would allow you to cover the whole range of focus, from very close to further away or let say a landscape, using just one lens.

Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow