A lot of people are looking into creative ways to use their regular lenses for macro. The trick is to make a lens focus up closer so magnification is boosted. Tubes are a good idea, close-up lenses might work. Reversing your lens is a whole other ballgame, and it can lead to significant magnifications. But […]
The Grand Macro Test
Very often I’ve played with various lenses, tubes, close-up filters and reverse-mount rings. But I actually never did a big test on my various lenses to see how they perform in the macro realm with all the tricks I could think of. So now I finally decided to do all the macro tests using […]
Canon’s auto-ISO feature… Brilliant or b
Have you ever noticed the “A” setting on the ISO dial on your Canon DSLR? “A” stands for auto ISO. Some people love it, some people hate it. Most people don’t fully understand it (and maybe that is why they hate it in the first place!). In this blog post I will try to explain […]
16.384 shades of grey: Deepdive on ISOs ...
I recently got into a very interesting conversation online on the Canon EOS Digital Photography forum around Manual mode and auto-ISO. Interesting as this discussion may, be turned out there was an even more technical discussion from that one on how “This ISO thing” actually works and how a modern DSLR processes this data into […]
Perfecting macro shooting: My phases in ...
Shooting macro has always interested me. Since I was a kid I tried to shoot bugs and other small creatures with a standard film camera… which failed of course. My father owned an SLR camera (which was old even for those days), but he had a bellows and managed to shoot a wasp up real […]