REAL Macro Lenses VS 'Close Up' VS Extension Tubes

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@mattgranger 3 ай бұрын

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@realnikonlover6207 3 ай бұрын

Very helpful video. Thanks Matt, Steph and Juan. Great job.

@pelanth 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for putting this video together. I totally forgot I had extension tubes in my gear stash and now I want to go use them.

@MarcelinoNogueiro 3 ай бұрын

Thanks, that's a great explanation, very helpful. It's nice to have "Steph" around, she is very versatile and gorgeous too 🙂. I guess you said "Bird" at 13:14 so Steph would not freak out with the "Bug" 🤣🤣🤣.

@mattgranger 3 ай бұрын

haha, no, Just misspoke. When I am constantly being recorded, I realise I do it regularly...

@d.k.1394 3 ай бұрын

Slip of his tongue

@kh1188ish 3 ай бұрын

Wow Matt, cranking out the videos lately. Great as always.

@stephenwhitelaw4873 3 ай бұрын

Good introduction to macro. Only problem I have is that at larger f stops (ie beyond f16) diffraction softens the larger depth of field image.

@d.k.1394 3 ай бұрын

True

@MrJapatta 3 ай бұрын

Curious to see the differences in image Quality from the true macro and the standard lens + extension tubes

@MarkSmithPdx 3 ай бұрын

I have the Nikon ZF and wanted a modern manual focus experience. I couldn't get the Voigtlander 50mm F/2 for Z so instead picked up the 65mm F/2 APO Macro. That lens reproduces to 1:2, so not true macro, but it wonderful in so many ways. I've shot wonderful close-ups, plus city & landscape shots with it. The bonus - it is super sharp, nice micro-contrast, and has a fairly fast aperture of F/2. You can even use it for portraits. Because the camera isn't controlling the aperture, it does report the f-stop from the setting on the lens however. Not the effective aperture, like Nikon's macro lenses have done for years. The downside, can't use the in camera focus shift function. So to stack you would need a focus rail. Just a shout out about this experience I've had in a way I wasn't expecting. Keep up these great videos Matt. Your video a number of months ago on the A9 and how shutters actually worked, completely opened my eyes. I just never knew, so thank you!

@johnfrantzen5563 13 күн бұрын

Excellent. Thanks.

@stevenmuncy491 3 ай бұрын

Is there a formula to determine the how far away you can focus with extensions tubes? ie the lens focused to infinity.

@saniwada 3 ай бұрын

I had no idea depth of field changed so much the closer you are to your subject, now it makes sense to me why there aren't any f1.2 or similarly low aperture macro lenses. verry educational video.

@mattgranger 3 ай бұрын

Yes and in fact the balance of foreground and background depth of field shifts as you move closer too! From 1/3 2/3, to about 50/50

@alantuttphotography 3 ай бұрын

Thought you might speak about the image quality difference between using a true macro lens vs. extension tubes.

@clissonplage 3 ай бұрын

By the way, I have a question precisely With the RF 100-400 mm and the extender 1.4 and on the R7, the focal length goes to 140-560mm Doesn't that change its natural magnification? Basically it is 0.41 at 400mmm Thanks for your light

@classic.cameras 3 ай бұрын

I might be insane but when I switched from Canon to Sony. I kept my Canon EF 100mm f2.8L IS Macro lens. I use it with a Sigma MC-11 Adapters. I do get full AF with the lens and sometimes I use extension tube with this set up. And the AF speed at that point is slow AF but it doesn't matter as MF is usually pretty good with Macro photography anyways. I was asked why I didn't just get the Sony and the reason? Already owned one of the best macro lenses ever made, why sell?

@d.k.1394 3 ай бұрын

Haha

@mistertonycorner 3 ай бұрын

Would love to have seen this back in the studio and compare the raws. What happened with the close up lens ? I use a NISI close up lens on my 24-200 z lens

@takaharu 3 ай бұрын

Very helpful video. I picked up a set of extension tubes a few years ago that are almost identical to those. I wondered if I was missing out by not having a dedicated macro lens and this video clarifies that, for me, I'm not missing out on anything. I'm curious though - what would happen if you put the extension tubes on the macro lens? Just for fun. Also, great camerawork!

@mattgranger 3 ай бұрын

Pls note, you may still get better images with a dedicated macro. I didn’t put tubes on this 50mm macro as the focus zone would be inside the lens

@clissonplage 3 ай бұрын

great it's great, I finally have my answer otherwise I also tested with the extender 1.4, on a 100-400mm on the R7 it works almost better than the 100mm macro 1.4!! except that in fact I am at 1m in approach distance and you must not move an inch with such a long focal length But what comfort for insects

@AndrewJayN 3 ай бұрын

What about putting extension tubes on a macro less? is the 2x or 5x macro lens you would recomend for Nikon Z? I have the 105 macro atm

@lensman5762 3 ай бұрын

Extension tubes only work well if the lens that was used with them was well corrected for close focus aberrations, field curvature and all the other optical ills in the first place, ie, they work best with macro lenses. You can use a small tube with normal 50mm lenses to give a bit more close focus ability, like in portraiture, without too much obvious degradation of the image, so they are useful. The point about the aperture being variable is absolutely correct. My Micro Nikkor AF-S 105 F2.8 ED actually works @ an effective F4 when operating in macro mode. You can clearly see the camera exposure meter compensation as you focus closer. I guess some people are just not prone to learning. Good show.