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Equipment for extreme macro

Started 7 months ago | Questions thread
ThrillaMozilla Veteran Member • Posts: 7,658
Re: Equipment for extreme macro

ZilverHaylide wrote:

But I doubt that you'd gain a solution to that issue by a switch to Canon,

Damsel flies

Not extreme macro, but I'm extremely impressed.

Maybe not a reason to switch, but certainly something to be aware of.

at least not for extreme macro, where depth-of-field is extremely thin, and any built-in focus bracketing has probably not been designed for that, that is, probably doesn't have fine-enough steps either.

I wouldn't make that assumption. I've never tried extreme macro, but do you think 999 steps is enough?

Not even sure what built-in focus bracketing is available in Canon. I think that some, but not all, Canon mirrorless bodies have it

Yes, indeed, the M6 II, the RP, the R5, the R6 the R7, and probably some others have it.

; be aware that even when the body has it, it only works with certain lenses -- I remember someone complaining in a DPReview post that info about it not being possible with that lens was only found in some obscure place in the lens' user manual.

It works with plenty of lenses, and Google is your friend.

Don't know whether any Canon DSLRs have it.

Oh, yes.

Canon does have the supposedly fairly-good 65mm 1-5x macro lens for DSLRs but I believe that's manual focus, so built-in focus bracketing is irrelevant for that.

It is manual focus, but it isn't "fairly good". It's great. However, I could be mistaken, but I'm not aware of any major manufacturers that support autofocusing at magnifications >2. But you could try Googling it.

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