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Looking to improve my macro game

Started 3 months ago | Discussions thread
OP Montanawildlives Senior Member • Posts: 1,845
Re: Looking to improve my macro game

macrouser wrote:

Your off to a good start. The 70-300 lens with converter sound like a very useful set up. It will work with all the " normal size insects " and you still have infinity focus. I don't know if your lens will auto focus with a 2X converter.

I have a Sony camera and my favorite lens is the FE 90 mm macro G lens. I have a step down ring to use the NISI 58 mm close up lens. That is 5 diopters. I carry the NISI lens in my pocket and if I have something very small, I take it out and screw it onto the 90 mm lens. I get very good results with that.

I also have my Sigma 150 mm macro lens for A mount that I need an adapter for. I have both the 1.4 x and 2x converters for it. I lose auto focus with the 2x converter but I have a 300 mm lens that will focus down to 30 cm with a 2:1 magnification.

Here is something I did yesterday with the 90 mm and NISI filter/lens.

The bee is about 3 mm long. The flower is in the portulaca family.

Thanks macrouser, given that your bee is so small, that is an impressive amount of detail. Had you not written that, I might not have been so impressed or looked so closely, but I can see now that the pollen grains are not merely specks as I often see in my pictures, but little 3-dimensional balls. Well done.

I had not really considered diopters from an impression that what you lose a significant amount of the benefit of the increased magnification with the additional pieces of glass, but I will take another look at that.

Thanks!

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