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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

I think maybe we should start over.

First, you should see this post for spectacular examples of focus stacking and other techniques -- sometimes using the R5, incidentally.

Second, you should be aware of the work of some photographers in this forum, specifically JohnK and GardenersAssistant. JohnK does outstanding work with single-shot macros of living insects. He strongly favors the Canon MP-E 65mm macro. He has commented on it here, and he wrote an old review, here. Nick, AKA GardenersAssistant, is distinguished by attaining astonishingly high depth of field with seemingly impossible low numerical apertures.

One member has found a reviewer who criticizes the MP-E 65 for longitudinal chromatic aberration, and for resolution with open aperture. That is not the only microscope or macro lens with longitudinal chromatic aberration. The MP-E is a popular lens among macro photographers, and I have not noticed signs of longitudinal chromatic aberration in their work. As far as I know, it has not been widely criticized for that, so it may be that it is not very important in practice. The same reviewer also found that it had substandard resolution wide open, compared it to an extremely expensive, specialized microscope lens that corrected for a specific distance, and is no longer available. The same reviewer also found that the MP-E 65 is very sharp. Take it for whatever it's worth.

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