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Not enough light

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grsnovi Veteran Member • Posts: 3,030
Mostly Bugs

Richard Dutton wrote:

there is an interesting article touching on the challenges of using these high mag lenses in Photography Life. A suggestion or two there about lighting:

https://photographylife.com/reviews/venus-laowa-25mm-f-2-8-2-5-5x-ultra-macro/2

Not something I have experience with myself.

The article assumes you're mostly shooting bugs (although one example image is of a steel rule laid flat - for the life of me I'm not sure why that was used as a focus stack image).

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