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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
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oneofone25 wrote:

ThrillaMozilla wrote:

Excellent!

I suspect that quite a few cameras will do this sort of thing with combinations of lens extenders, extension tubes, and add-on macro lenses, even if manufacturers don't support them directly.

I have friends who tried this with the Canon 100mm but couldn't get it to work correctly. I do not know about other brands since Sony doesn't have the ability to do focus bracketing that I know of....

This is just a guess, but it may depend on the camera and the focusing method.  The R cameras seem designed to handle very small apertures.

extension tubes are tough...there's a sweet spot I've found with my Olympus setup as I can add tubes but the lighting really is affected. I can use the Raynox 250 and the Raynox 202 but then diffraction is limiting...

Oh, yes, indeed.  This is very much a do-it-yourself project.  But the idea with focus stacking is not to use a very small aperture, so the picture is neither light-limited nor diffraction-limited.

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