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Rick, I looked through your gallery and some of your previous posts. You have a great collection of macro images! One of your posts mentioned getting the images during a “night walk”. What was your souce of lighting for focussing?
I keep holding out, hoping they will make a Weather sealed version with auto focus that might not ever happen but if it does, they have my money lol
Thanks! I wear a small head lamp and it illuminates the diffuser enough to provide a soft light for focusing. I use a Nitecore NU25 myself, but any small bright head lamp will work. The Meike flash I use also has a built in LED light to help with focusing, but it seems to drain the batteries so fast that I only use it when I really have to.
Great idea! Thanks for sharing.
The Raynox is prolly the next best thing to an actual macro lens, but for cost saving reasons. You'll find that auto focus is pretty unreliable for macro and you'll likely end up using manual for the best results anyway. At least in my experience.
Eddie, I saw the Raynox and it sounds interesting. I can’t say anything substantive since I haven’t tried it. It does have good reviews. Personally I’m just not a big believer in teleconverters for lenses and these are basically teleconverters, but I understand how others might feel differently. Rick also made some very good points.
Rick you are correct. However, what I do is use BBF to get me close and then move back and forth for focus and composition. Best of both worlds!
You get used to the manual focus fast enough. I even managed to get these with my 100mm Laowa.
