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Bronica ETRSi close ups
I enjoy close up work with 35mm but now I have moved to MF using a Bronica
with a standard 75mm lens I can't get close enough. Other than getting a macro lens what are my best alternatives? The cheapest seems to be close up filters attached to the front of the lens ( less than £30 secondhand) but what would quality be like? I use B/W and colour neg film and enlarge to a max. of 12" x 16". Advice will be much appreciated. Cheers Jeff |
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Bronica ETRSi close ups
On Sun, 2 May 2004 18:21:50 +0100, "jeff worsnop"
wrote: I enjoy close up work with 35mm but now I have moved to MF using a Bronica with a standard 75mm lens I can't get close enough. Other than getting a macro lens what are my best alternatives? The cheapest seems to be close up filters attached to the front of the lens ( less than £30 secondhand) but what would quality be like? I use B/W and colour neg film and enlarge to a max. of 12" x 16". Advice will be much appreciated. Cheers Jeff Be sure and use a good lens shade with the closeup lenses as they are prone to increase flare levels. Other than the closeup lenses extension tubes are the next bet. They should give you generally sharper pictures than the closeup lenses and only a macro lens can do better. The only thing to watch for is using a handheld meter, you have to apply a bellows factor to it to get the correct exposure. The closeup lenses compensate for this by shortening the true focal length of the lens system. TTL metering reads the actual light arriving through the steup. After that if you want to get extreme is the Automatic Bellows available for a pretty steep price. I have one for the SQ camera and it's nice! You just can't use it with TTL flash without doing a bit of workaround with flash connectors back to the body. Again TTL metering with your prism will get accurate exposures (barring reciprocity problems) Heres a link to my workaround if you are interested. http://www.apug.org/site/main/viewtopic.php?t=582 |
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Bronica ETRSi close ups
Thanks Gary.
I think I'll bin the screw on close up filter idea and save up for an extension tube. Cheers Jeff "Gary Beasley" wrote in message ... On Sun, 2 May 2004 18:21:50 +0100, "jeff worsnop" wrote: I enjoy close up work with 35mm but now I have moved to MF using a Bronica with a standard 75mm lens I can't get close enough. Other than getting a macro lens what are my best alternatives? The cheapest seems to be close up filters attached to the front of the lens ( less than £30 secondhand) but what would quality be like? I use B/W and colour neg film and enlarge to a max. of 12" x 16". Advice will be much appreciated. Cheers Jeff Be sure and use a good lens shade with the closeup lenses as they are prone to increase flare levels. Other than the closeup lenses extension tubes are the next bet. They should give you generally sharper pictures than the closeup lenses and only a macro lens can do better. The only thing to watch for is using a handheld meter, you have to apply a bellows factor to it to get the correct exposure. The closeup lenses compensate for this by shortening the true focal length of the lens system. TTL metering reads the actual light arriving through the steup. After that if you want to get extreme is the Automatic Bellows available for a pretty steep price. I have one for the SQ camera and it's nice! You just can't use it with TTL flash without doing a bit of workaround with flash connectors back to the body. Again TTL metering with your prism will get accurate exposures (barring reciprocity problems) Heres a link to my workaround if you are interested. http://www.apug.org/site/main/viewtopic.php?t=582 |
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