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In a couple postings, Jerry Bromenshenk provided very good advice about
retaining a standard camera (with various lenses) for close-up work.
Consider also the following:
Anyone who has a good camera and macro lens can buy a teleconverter
instead of bellows to increase the size of image photographed. I have used
both a 2X and 3X teleconverter and have had no problems. Of course, one
has to use flash with such great magnification.
Bright sunlight or single flash has a problem already noted --- the
presence of a dark shadow. To counter that, I used a "Macrobracket"
attachment to the camera. The end of one arm (I chose the left) had a
single simple flash; the other end had the same type of flash covered with
a single layer of velum. That combination permitted a full and a fill-in
flash simultaneously and yielded a great picture. Naturally, one has to
calculate the amount of exposure time, a task much easier with
teleconverters than with bellows.
By using slide film, one gets very sharp pictures already ready for
slide presentations.
Adrian
Adrian M. Wenner (805) 963-8508 (home phone)
967 Garcia Road (805) 893-8062 (UCSB FAX)
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 [http://www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/index.htm]
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