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Not really sure if this is the best place for these as they're not Macro as such but still close-up....
I repair/restore pocket watches for a living. I don't really have a need for a dedicated macro rig but like to take photos of my work sometimes - It can be helpful for occasionally discussing approaches to the job with other people. So I recently picked up some KOOD magnifying filters. These are my first attempts with the 4X one.
This is a particularly nice and unusually small 18th century watch - the outer case is about 36mm diameter where they are more usually between 50 and 60mm.
I've shot them using a 28-105 lens at around 90mm, small aperture of around F mid-twenties and let the camera sort the shutter speed which are in the region of a second. I get the feeling that the magnifyers are reducing the effective depth of field? Camera is on a tripod and since I don't have a remote release for it yet I used the 10 second timer. Lighting is just the poisable strip light above my bench. None are cropped at all.
Comments of what to do differently welcome!
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2 20p for scale.
3 Shutter speed has resulted in visible movement of the contrate wheel.
I repair/restore pocket watches for a living. I don't really have a need for a dedicated macro rig but like to take photos of my work sometimes - It can be helpful for occasionally discussing approaches to the job with other people. So I recently picked up some KOOD magnifying filters. These are my first attempts with the 4X one.
This is a particularly nice and unusually small 18th century watch - the outer case is about 36mm diameter where they are more usually between 50 and 60mm.
I've shot them using a 28-105 lens at around 90mm, small aperture of around F mid-twenties and let the camera sort the shutter speed which are in the region of a second. I get the feeling that the magnifyers are reducing the effective depth of field? Camera is on a tripod and since I don't have a remote release for it yet I used the 10 second timer. Lighting is just the poisable strip light above my bench. None are cropped at all.
Comments of what to do differently welcome!
1
2 20p for scale.
3 Shutter speed has resulted in visible movement of the contrate wheel.
