Equipment

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 …

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. …

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. …

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 …

“Macro” is my keyword. In many situations I’m tight-lipped, but when it comes to macro I’m hard to shut up. Feel free to test me 🙂 Like anglers’ tall tales …

I had long been paying attention to Murat Öztürk—whom I met on Facebook—for his macro work using a reversed 18–55 mm kit lens. After seeing these successful shots, which practically contradicted …

I’d tackled the use of polarizing filters once before. It was a long time ago, and I was using flash for all my macro shots. That’s why I published a …

Among macro shooting methods, perhaps the most enigmatic is using microfilm lenses. We can find almost no information about these lenses. If you’ve found a microfilm lens, it could be …

When we went to visit the elders in the family last weekend, I rummaged through the cupboards where my old belongings were kept. I found the binocular I had scraped …

People who want to start macro shooting—or just try it a bit—often feel undecided when faced with so many options. I get a lot of messages about this. “Which lens …