Digital Close-up Photography

I was thinking about getting into photography.

I remember having an old foot long, 37mm lens attachment laying around, so I unearthed it in a box of stuff in a corner of my basment. After I get a 30mm to 37mm lens adapter for my Kodak DX3600 digital camera, I’ll have a go at taking closeup shots!

But, will it work? I’ve never done it before, and I’m wondering if I can get good quality close-up with a digi cam.

If anyone has any experiance or advice about this, or photograpgy in general, I’m all ears!

(or eyes in this case :slight_smile: )

Thanks.

i don’t know a helluva lot but most digital cameras have a macro setting in them for close up shots. sounds like you have a nicer rig then me, though i didn’t look up your camera.

I took this with the standard macro setting on my olympus c4000 zoom.

http://www.eaemedia.com/blender/flowerpic01.jpg

let me know if this pic takes to long to load, its 138k.

i have taken many “macro” shots of various bugs, plants, fungus, and flowers. I love walking around and looking at things from all different perspectives.

https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43428 << interesting thread on Macro photography.

Hafunui - good show on getting a 37m close up lense + lens adaptor for your camera!

Choice3d - Nice macro! Was that with the camera in super macro mode? I have an Olympus C5000, but I’ve still to try Macros.


Brian

this is my camera, if it matters.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/products/ekn009396.jhtml?pq-path=742

kodak.com also sells the adapter i wanted.

hafunui: with that camera i don’t think you need to get the adapter for that other lens, the stock lens will allow you to start taking decent close-up pictures right away. just experiment and get comfortable with your camera for all different shooting modes.

while in macro mode the zoom is disabled so i often will leave it in another mode to give me the zoom. the problem when zooming up for a macro shot is that the shot can become blurry very easily if your hand is not dead steady. I recommend a tripod and shooting with a timed delay for the best pics. This will allow the camera vibration from you pressing the button to go away before the pic is actually snapped. And with photography it is always good to take about 10x more pictures than you think you’ll need to get that one good shot.

I always keep my camera in the highest resolution it allows and the compression on highest quality setting or no compression at all(raw).

:smiley:

I thought I’d show some macro shots I took with my Canon Powershot A80.

http://www.estorm.com.au/gallery/images/photos/yeppoon/bolt_crumb.jpg
http://www.estorm.com.au/gallery/images/photos/yeppoon/fly.jpg

btw, I can zoom with macro enabled, but I find that it’s best not to anyway, both of the above shots were without zoom.

I used a 50mm lens to get these results:

https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40690&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

I used a magnifying glass.

I think the answer is yes, it will work. Like Choice said, most cameras have a built-in macro setting, but you may be able to get away without it. The key is a short focal length. My camera is around 4 inches, which allows me to get pretty close to a lot of things. Flowers are fun. :slight_smile:

But I would definitely say that if you can get a better lens, do so. It will make macro a lot easier. Digital really can’t compare yet with film in terms of quality, IMO, but most digital cameras have pretty decent capabilities. If you have a nice camera you’ll do fine. Just take lots and lots of pictures (I’m talking orders of magnitude here).

Pickle: your link does not work for me.

the olympus c4000 has a focal length of 2cm. often I bump into the subject matter with the lens!

when i take closeups, it’s usualy uber grainy. but that could be cause im VERY close up. Its kinda hard to tell. I’ll give the extra lenses a try :wink:

i am guessing it is low light, try to take some outdoor shots with nice natural light.

Choice3d: updated link.