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valerieniu
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 Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:03 am Post subject: Acheiving focus on extremely tiny objects |
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| I am a photography student at Northern Illinois University and just came across your beautiful snowflake photos. Phenomenol photos! I am trying to assist a Professor of Anthropology photograph his collection of tiny, and I mean tiny, early primate fossils. They are less than a the size of a grain of rice. I am using a 1:1 Nikkor macro lens and a Nikon D300. I cannot seem to achieve good focus regardless what I try. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! |
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danbrown
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| Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:21 am Post subject: Re: Acheiving focus on extremely tiny objects |
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| valerieniu wrote: | | I am a photography student at Northern Illinois University and just came across your beautiful snowflake photos. Phenomenol photos! I am trying to assist a Professor of Anthropology photograph his collection of tiny, and I mean tiny, early primate fossils. They are less than a the size of a grain of rice. I am using a 1:1 Nikkor macro lens and a Nikon D300. I cannot seem to achieve good focus regardless what I try. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! |
First, use a flash. Second, make sure you are not confusing bad focus for diffraction softening the image. If it is indeed a problem with focusing try a focusing rail. I have one from Really Right Stuff, here is a link, http://reallyrightstuff.com/rrs/items.asp?Cc=MACRO&iTpStatus=0&Tp=&Bc=
I hope this helps.
Dan |
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