No macro enthusiast is unfamiliar with John Hallmén. If you aren’t, let’s fix that right away. We should really provide a list. I recommend following them all. When we say …
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Testing the limits of any lens we get our hands on is both fun and instructive. Sometimes you can stumble upon unexpectedly delightful discoveries. In the previous review, we tried …
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We’re after some experimental fun today 🙂 As they say, the best way to learn something is to try it yourself. Back in high school physics we had a unit …
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The story part of what I’m going to tell is a bit old. So we could call this a belated post. I’ve been using projection lenses for a long time. …
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Working with dead insects is common in macro shooting—especially at high magnifications. It often even becomes a necessity. Gaining experience and know-how takes time. How you store, clean, and stage …
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If you’ve been following Macro World, you’ve probably noticed: I’ve been sharing only wide-angle shots for a while. My high-magnification microscope etc. work is on pause. I’m not sure if …
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Sometimes we see a photo of an insect and just can’t figure out how it was taken. In the middle of an “action” scene, time seems to have frozen. We …
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I remember the very first post I published on this site—I’d written about how I missed the shots I used to take in macro mode with my old compact camera. …
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In those discovery-era days when I couldn’t find peace chasing macro photos and kept hunting for alternatives, the same thought was always on my mind: get closer, see more detail. …
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Writing this article was actually a bit unplanned. As soon as I picked up one of the macro + wide-angle phone lenses—bought at work for a totally different purpose—to test …