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Equipment for extreme macro

Started 7 months ago | Questions thread
ZilverHaylide Senior Member • Posts: 1,340
Re: Equipment for extreme macro

3D Gunner wrote:

You have a multitude of solutions at your disposal, from dedicated macro lenses (e.g. Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro), combinations with inverted lenses, tubes and attached macro (achromatic) lenses on lenses you already have, to microscope lenses.

For start I would go with the lens you already have, Tamron SP Di AF 180mm 1:3.5 plus a 35mm inverted lens (on a dedicated ring adapter), preferably Nikon Ai Nikkor 35mm F2.8 Wide Angle MF Prime Lens.

Is that Tamron 180 internal focus, or does it extend when focusing? And are its filter threads metal?

As much as the inverted lens coupled to a primary lens is a cheap and potentially good method, I always worry about hanging something heavy onto a primary lens, for both of the above reasons. If the lens extends when focusing, then its bearings and support system were designed with its own mass in mind, not with something heavy cantilevered-out. And even if internal focusing, I worry about the ability of plastic filter threads (now common on most lenses) to support something much heavier than a filter. (To a lesser extent, I also worry about those things on the inverted lens, but it is usually lighter and cheaper than the primary lens, so it's less of a worry).

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