This is a quick introduction to an upcoming series of videos all about high-magnification macro photography using microscope objectives instead of camera or enlarger lenses. I try to demystify what can be a rather intimidating area of the macro world. For those of you interested in learning more about the issues touched on in this video, I highly recommend you visit the following website. All three are jam-packed with useful information and will serve as reliable resources for extreme macro photography:
1) Extreme-Macro.co.uk
2) Photomacrography.net
3) closeupphotography.com
If you want to give this fascinating macro technique a try, here is the recommended equipment that I will be using in the next video:
1) The microscope objective (AmScope Plan 4/0.10 160/0.17) which you can find right here (NOT an affiliate link)
2) An adapter for connecting the objective to M42 extension tubes (RMS to M42 adapter) - you can find these on eBay, B&H, and Amazon. The Amazon link is:
3) Extension tubes - I recommend using M42 tubes. They come in a variety of lengths and screw together to make one long tube. For this setup there are no glass elements to worry about so the length of you tube needs to be 160mm MINUS the flange distance of your particular camera. For Nikon full frame F-mount cameras that distance is 46.5mm, meaning I will be using a extension tubes totaling 113.5mm in length. Because this is not a nice round number (and this distance is very important!) I will be using a short helicoid (M42 size) which will allow me to make fine adjustments to the overall length of the extension tubes. eBay, Amazon, and all photography shops should have inexpensive M42 helicoids available. M42 extension tubes can be purchased from the usual outlets, but the cheapest I could find are on eBay…
4) The last thing you will need is an adapter to connect the screw-in M42 extension tube to your camera. This is the Nikon one from Amazon…
If you need help finding anything else, drop me a line.
Thanks for watching!
Allan
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