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About the Kenko extension tubes…
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They work great for me, I like the possibility to use only one and with flash I can easily shoot macro handheld. You have to get really close though, that’s why I prefer the 105 over the 50mm. Here’s a few example with the extension tubes and the Nikkor 105/2 dc. I used all the three for the white flower, the other two were with the 12mm only. Manual focus, and I don’t remember what defocus setting.. something like R 2 or 2.8. I’m still learning to use deeper depth of field, but I just love the bokeh of this lens at f/2. What do you think?
Please excuse my stupidity, but what exactly are extensionn tubes?
Nice pictures though. I really like the third one. The sharpness of the water droplets look brilliat here. The first two look a little unsharp to me though. Is this the intended effect?
They’re lovely, I particularly like the first-
I dunno if you’ve posted pix off this lens before?
I’m sure I would have noticed it-Looks great-
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Thanks for the comments.
Irishaqua: The extension tubes are simply empty tubes that you can put between the lens and the camera. You can get much closer to the subject and so the magnification increases… something like that.
JB: No, this lens is brand new. I bought it for low light and portrait use, but I’m still just testing it. The defocus control is a lot of fun and I enjoy the possibility to get sharp images with that dreamy blur. I also ordered a Kenko set and so I found the two things can work very well together. I will have to control myself and use smaller apertures though.This is MY area, you stealing it….!!!
Seriously, I love macro and I found these shots way out of my league, mind you I am only starting this ‘thing’ called photography.
Also very interesting about those er, tubes!!
I will log on here again and see whats up. Very good quality pics I have seen so far, am dead jealous.
will I bother….
I WILL!
xAnn :mrgreen:The third one for me.
The first looks nice all right, but there’s none of it in focus to me… is this the desired effect???
I ask this because I have dumped some of my own efforts similar to this because I thought it was wrong.
And please take this as a query not a criticism.Pat
IMHO 1 and 2 dont work for me nothing at all is in focus, 3 works because there is a focus point.
I shoot alot at f2.8 on my 150 macro mainly insects where i would have the eye in focus and let the rest go to cream, to me thats artistic macro, and takes alot of practice to get correct.
But if 1 and 2 was the effect you wanted while shooting, well then who are we our anyone to say it isn’t correct. Photography is what you the photographer wants it to be.
Keep playing macro is fun.
i admit that the dof is too shallow on these. on the first one the stamen should be in focus, but they are not… perfectly :)
i guess it was the defocus control on that particular image causing the blur… i looked at it on the large original and the focusing was good, but it’s not perfectly sharp anywhere. the dc is a good feature, but it’s best for portraits.note that these are my first macro shots..ever.
but, when i like a photo, i usually don’t care if the sharpness is perfect or not. don’t dump your images just because they are blurry or whatever… keep them if you like them… photography is your art, everybody else is just a viewer.
i take critiques good, and i try to take perfect pictures to avoid getting critiques :)
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