Lock Your Mirror When Stacking
When it comes to focus stacking with high magnification objectives, everything that can reduce vibration counts. Among all the things, one common factor, and is well known by many experienced focus stacking experts, is the mirror lockup mode of the camera when using flash to light the subject. What is mirror lockup anyways? Well, before we get into this, we need to understand how modern DSLR (or SLR for that matter) camera works. DSLR or SLR camera has a mirror that redirects
Using Microscope Objectives For Beginners
Isn't it cool to use a microscope objective for macro photography? I mean, just by looking at it, it is cool. But when I first started using microscope objectives on my Canon 550D, I made quite a few mistakes. That was largely due to the fact that I did not understand what microscope objectives are and how they should be used to achieve the result I wanted. It is very cool to have an objective mounted in front of a telephoto lens, just by looking at it. This objective is an a
