This is the proper tools shed isn't it, it's a real man hang out, not like
me, farting around with cameras all day long.
Now i wanted to talk to you
some more about macro and close ups.
a dedicated macro lens is much like any other type of lens
except that it is a dedicated tool which allows you to get very very close
to your subject, and the closer you get to the subject
obviously the bigger it becomes.
But i just want to show you a very handy little accessory which will convert any
ordinary lens into a close-up lens, and they're called close up filters. You might be able to see
i have mine marked plus
one to plus three.
There used to be a plus four, but in true mike Browne style i lost it, so we'll
have to just cope with what we've got.
Basically what they are is they're a
good quality glass which is ground into a magnifier just
magnifying glass which you can stick in front of your lens.
Let's have a go with one and see what goes on.
The place to begin
is if i try and take a close up shot
of this nut here with the spanner in the background, i'm just gonna move that over a little bit.
the closest i can get with the standard lens, this is an eighteen to seventy zoom
the closest i can get to it
is gonna be
about
just need to get the focus on beep, there it is.
did you hear the little beep
We'll find it, there it is. pull the focus, and take the picture.
That's as close as i can get to that nut
with this box standard lens.
But if i had a close up filter,
and you can probably guess for yourselves where this is going, where's the plus one,
there it is.
it allows me to
sneak in
closer and closer.
if i had the plus one which isn't a
massive magnification
but it has some,
here we go.
i can get just that little bit closer, but I've got to make sure i re-compose the picture the same.
You just kind of sneak in
listen for the beeper to focus,
and as long as you're getting
a beep, you're getting closer.
Now right did you hear that? there's no beep when i touch the button so i'm inside the
focusing distance with the lens, so i need to back off a bit.
there we go, i can take the picture.
when you flick between those two
see we've just kind of like got a little bit closer, haven't we and a bit bigger.
pop on the number two filter
and we'll get it a little bit closer still.
This is an interesting test to see how close you can get. You
could of course keep using your lens hood and i really would recommend it.
I'm not putting it on or off.
Just because of the speed really.
Again just keep sneaking in,
almost done, auto focus is very accurate.
I recommend you use it, here we go.
There it is.
Yeah you can see,
we're just kind of sneaking in closer and closer
Now we'll have the number three here we're getting even closer still.
Of course if i hadn't of lost my number four,
it would be really cool.
Right why isn't that working, i don't know.. ah here we go.
It's just finding the right
place.
There it is.
You get the general idea
and you can add more powerful filters so you can get closer and closer.
But there's a really cool thing with these and that is
you can stack them up,
you can just screw them to the other like this.
now I've lost number four but I've got a plus three a plus one and a plus two
between them all together that's giving me a magnification factor of plus six
which is quite a lot.
If you'd of put a four onto there as well,
you're into
plus ten aren't you, which is very very close indeed.
Now then, let's see what's happening, ah that's really close
in fact
Let's keep going, here we go.
still getting in closer
in fact it's now got so close that
i can't get the spanner into shot, i'm just going to move it
because the field of view has narrowed. There it is,
and
now we're in very close indeed.
so you can see
let's just flick between them, we're going in
very close and then back out, the difference between all of the stacked together
and the number three on it's own is really quite fernominal isn't it.
There really are some quite nice shots
as i zoom right into them,
i can see they're very good quality as well.
Now good quality after market macro lens sigma is gonna
is going to set you back probably three hundred and fifty or so pounds.
you can add another two hundred or more
if you're going to buy Nikon or canon's own.
these filters are very very good ones and they cost me about, forty pounds each.
But you can pick them up for a lot less if you pick them up for a lot less if you're prepared to do a bit of research and
homework to find good quality ones.
another great advantage of these from a cost point of view, is if you're going to
change your kit
say from
canon to pentax
you wouldn't have to go out and buy a new macro lens to fit your
pentax camera.
you can just pop these on to the end of whatever lens that you have.
This lens is a seventy-two millimeter diameter lens, and that's
what these filters are seventy-two mil diameter
so this fits precisely into the end of the lens, look don't worry about that
that too much
you can always hang them on the front by sticking them on with a bit of blue tack
or with tape i do it a lot.
If you want to do it properly,
you could go to a shop and buy an adapter ring, suppose you had a sixty-two mil lens
and you had a sixty-seven mil filter,
you screw the adapter ring in
for that lens filter combernation and it will all fit properly
don't confuse
the millimeter measurement i'm talking about on your lens with the focal length
i'm talking about the diameter this is a sixty seven millimeter diameter lens
that's this measurement from there to there.
it's printed on the inside of your lens cap it's not the focal length which is
an eighteen to seventy millimeter.
Confusing isn't it?
So close up filters
a great way to get yourself some close up shots
Now i'm going to share lot's of boys toys, i'm going to play with the hammer..