Lenses

I’ve been using two old Russian Lomo microscope objectives for a while. I’m happy with both—the 8X and the 3.7X. The 3.7X is especially fantastic. The hero of this post …

Russian-made optics are known for being inexpensive yet high-quality and durable. Since I was happy with my first microscope objective, the Lomo 8X, I gravitated—again with no prior knowledge—toward another …

You’re into macro photography and want to try something different… You’ve got lenses of various focal lengths in a drawer: 200mm, 135mm, 90, 50, 35, etc. Or at least let’s …

I still remember the thrill of picking up my 1:1 macro lens for the first time and shooting a few frames—being able to render flowers and insects that large was …

Literally, a teleconverter is a “tele adapter,” meaning a device that increases a lens’s focal length. It does this by specific multiplication factors. You can find teleconverters in various strengths …

I’ll keep this post a bit brief because the topic is closely related to the article Macro photography with an enlarger lens. For more general information, don’t forget to take …

Known in English as “enlarger” lenses, these belong to the darkroom equipment of the film photography era. When we wanted to make a photographic print from a negative, we used …

Just as the use of extension tubes is common and important in macro photography, reverse lens mounting is likewise among the first techniques we should learn as a method we’ll …

My first microscope lens was a Russian-made 1970 Lomo 8× 0.20. When I first saw it, I was a bit surprised—I didn’t expect it to be this small. These lenses …

Under the title Using everyday lenses for close-up work, I’ll revisit—one by one as separate posts—the magnification-increasing methods to examine in more detail and provide examples of the techniques I …