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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 …

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 …

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 …

I ended up rewriting this post a few times and added something new to the content each time. At first I planned to touch only on the Raynox units, but …

Mitutoyo is the king of macro! A legendary lens! A dream of many years! At the same time, it’s an expensive microscope objective with lots of accessory needs and hard …

We’re in the dead of winter. Winter brings to mind wind, snow, and storms, but this year Istanbul is having a mild and dry winter. While that’s bad news environmentally, …

Spring is here; macro season is open. The nice weather, flowers, and bugs we dreamed of all winter are waiting for us outside. But this time, instead of grabbing the …

Ever since I started taking photos I’d been curious about polarizing filters, yet for some reason I kept them outside my area of interest for a very long time. Even …

If the goal is macro, nothing beats being out in the field. Escaping the city’s crowded, noisy crush; working with live insects and flowers in their natural habitat; watching and …

In the previous post, we looked at what the focus stacking technique is. We talked about how, to complete sharpness in areas that are out of focus, we need to …