Macro Photography

d0od

Shared on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 12:45

I recieved a set of extension tubes for my Nikon D90 as a belated X-mas present. These move the lens body away from the camera and allow you to focus on really close objects. Both of these pics are of very boring subject matter, a 3 ring binder and the support arm on my truck tailgate but I think getting so close makes them interesting. The focal plane when using the tubes is razer thin and makes focusing very difficult. I took a few pictures of eyeballs close up they were cool looking but the focus was too far off to post. I am going to try again this time with more setup (tripod remote and a head rest). I hit a bit of a dry spell taking pics, it is hard when you get home from work it is dark and you can only take pics in the house.

Poth these pics were taken with a 50mm Lens and all 3 extension tubes on. They are un-cropped and I adjusted the contrast a bit.

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Submitted by d0od on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 13:28
It looks like they should work for you, the only think Im not sure about is the AF. I will throw my 18-105 AF-S lens on later and try it out, if that works then you should be able to. The 50mm lens is not a AF-S lens and uses the motor in the camera for focusing. Not that it works well when the subject matter is less than 1" from the lens.
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Submitted by d0od on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 14:40
I believe the extension tubes would work just fine on the D60. My AF-S lens worked just peachy, well as peachy as could be expected I guess. It seems the AF doesn't like being so close to its subjects so I was sticking with manual focus.
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Submitted by H2Daddy on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 13:14
I can't see the pics because I am stuck at work where they have a filter on the computers so the kids don't look up porn. I will have to check them out when I get home. I need to look into these extension tubes. I like trying macro photography. I have a D60. Will these work for it?

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