My first foray into macro was a reversing ring on my old 50mm lens. I loved it that much I now have a Nikon Z 105mm f2.8 S Macro and Laowa 100mm f2.8 2X Macro lens for my Z8. It's a great genre of photography as you get to see stuff that isn't easily seen any other way
Another economical macro-photography trial might be done with close-up lenses; you get them with the appropriate filter-size of your lens and just screw them on. But these also come in cheap versions and higher quality (=more expensive) ones. But in the end: nothing beats the quality of a dedicated macro lens :-)
In fact, no. Yes, you can improve magnification, but at the price of horrendous vignetting. Those pictures are terrible. Unfortunately, if you want professional results it costs money.
My first foray into macro was a reversing ring on my old 50mm lens. I loved it that much I now have a Nikon Z 105mm f2.8 S Macro and Laowa 100mm f2.8 2X Macro lens for my Z8. It's a great genre of photography as you get to see stuff that isn't easily seen any other way
Oh yeah, I forgot about reversing rings! I had one of those for my old film SLR. crazy shallow DOF though
Great video Steve !!
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Another economical macro-photography trial might be done with close-up lenses; you get them with the appropriate filter-size of your lens and just screw them on. But these also come in cheap versions and higher quality (=more expensive) ones. But in the end: nothing beats the quality of a dedicated macro lens :-)
In fact, no. Yes, you can improve magnification, but at the price of horrendous vignetting. Those pictures are terrible. Unfortunately, if you want professional results it costs money.
We have very different definitions of “terrible”