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One of the most challenging things with macro photography is getting a broad depth of field around your subject. Focus too closely on the foreground and the background is out of focus and vice versa.
A typical solution is to capture several images while moving the camera closer with each shot. You then combine all the...
As we wind down our lens reviews of 2012, we take a close look at a lens designed for close up looking: the Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Macro. As a micro four-thirds lens, it offers an effective field of view of 120mm and a full 1:1 reproduction ratio, all encased in a small and light package. Click here to read our full review...
With forecasters already predicting another down year for snowfall in the U.S. (global warming, anyone?), these stunning macro images of snowflakes by Russian photographer Andrew Osokin should help remind you that winter is coming (as the Starks often say on HBO's "Game of Thrones").
Osokin, who lives and works in...
The new e-book "Wide-Angle Macro: The Essential Guide" is dedicated, detailed and delightful -- a far cry from your typical "how-to" photography book. The book is focused, pardon the pun, on just one thing: wide-angle, close-up shooting. Filled with solid technical information and lots of large illustrative photographs,...
You've heard of Macro photography but how about über-Macro photography? That's one way, perhaps, to describe the work of San Francisco commercial and fine art photographer Caren Alpert who uses an electron microscope to capture striking extreme close-ups of food.
Who would have thought a shrimp tail at 230x...
The Sigma 180mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro was announced leading up to the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, and has again shown Sigma's ability to target the holes in other manufacturers' lens lineups. A long macro lens with optical stabilization, the lens features an impressive optical formula - 19 elements in 14...
Three nuggets of news came from Sigma at Photokina today, as the company announced it has redefined its lineup of interchangeable lenses into three categories, introduced three new lenses -- one for each new category -- and shared how the company is stepping up its lens testing and quality control processes.
The new...
As usual, the pre-release buzz for whatever new iPhone that Apple might be planning to release this year has reached a fever pitch. Consider this parody commercial (below), which imagines Apple's new iPhone 5 not so much as a phone but as a digital SLR. (And one that looks suspiciously like a Canon product.)
The fake...
Sigma Corp. has today announced a new lens that, says the company, offers unique technology not found in competitors' products to date.
The design of the Sigma 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM uses a material described as Thermally Stable Composite. TSC is said to have 25% higher elasticity than polycarbonate, and low thermal shrinkage. This, says Sigma, reduces expansion and...
Who says photography gear has to be expensive? Photographer Derrick Story found this NEEWER 48 LED Ring Light on Amazon for around $30 and he loves the results he's getting with it for macro photography.
Story had this to say about the inexpensive ring light on his blog The Digital Story:
"Sound too good to be true? It isn't. You don't have to worry about flash sync or TTL...
The Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO updates an existing (and now discontinued) 150mm macro, redesigning its array of lens elements and adding optical stabilization to the mix. As Sigma excels in doing, the lens plugs a hole in other manufacturers' lineups, offering a medium telephoto macro solution with integrated optical stabilization. We've run the lens through its paces in...
Sigma's new 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM macro lens is a redesign of an older design, with a few extra features. HSM focusing replaces an older (and slightly confusing) focusing system, and optical stabilization has been added in case you didn't want to lug a tripod into the field. We've put this lens through its paces in our test lab - click here to see our full review of this lens....
In 2011, Sony released the 30mm f/3.5 Macro as the fourth in its series of NEX E-mount lenses. The lens offers full 1:1 (100%) macro reproduction, with a very short working distance of under four inches; when you consider the length of the lens and the distance of the sensor, this equates to about an inch from the front of the lens itself. Just under five ounces in weight, Sony...
