[Leica] IMG: Macro Lens with Extension

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Mark, I know some folks who do this, and they get great images. I just 
prefer not to use that approach.? It's a personal choice.

Thanks for the comments.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 9/22/2017 10:57 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> Instead of a tripod for such stuff lots of people who do a whole lot of 
> this kind of stuff use a coiled through the lens metering cord instead to 
> connect their flash which then goes off at 1/80,000 of a second at that 
> close distance and has you shooting stopped down where you need to be 
> which is f 16. For some reason the shots don?t come off like cheap flash?s 
> shots as in other genres partly because the light is coming often from way 
> off lens axis and something having to do with the ultra-close distance 
> that?s had to anyone for anyone to explain. Part of that may be its just 
> become par for the course in these shots people are used to seeing macro 
> shots of bugs and flowers with sharp hard not quite available lighting.
> Macro requires ultra-fast in effect from the flash exposures  (duration) 
> coupled with  f 16 and be there.
> There is no other way to get this than with flash. A tripod is like 
> dropping anchor in the middle of the ocean and going fishing.
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