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Equipment for extreme macro

Started 7 months ago | Questions thread
oneofone25
oneofone25 Senior Member • Posts: 1,586
Re: Some notes from a workshop I gave

c h u n k wrote:

RE The (yet another) brand vs brand tribalism, I think its pretty obvious that Olympus/M43 is very capable, and for some maybe even the best option, *WHEN* photographing only macro magnifications in a studio with controlled lighting. Its limitations are when your photography is more diverse than just macro in a studio or basic macro in the field. I just think that should be mentioned when people start advertising a camera system in an otherwise brand neutral thread, or really, he shoots Nikon so not sure why selling cameras for Olympus came up. Seems like it should have been solutions within and for Nikon.

See, that's what I do not get....why only in a studio with controlled lighting?

Here's a video of my setup outdoors...

EM1 Mark 2 with the MC-20 teleconverter, 16mm Pixco extension tube, Olympus 60mm macro lens and a Raynox 250. I backed off of 1:1 a little which gives me 5x magnification.

Focus bracket mode 1/10

245 images stacked. I had my iso at 320, and f stop at f5.6 which I have since found that f4.5 is sharper with my setup....

here's the final image I had from my stack.  I was pretty happy with it.

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