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Photography

flamin lib

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1. Nice post on close-in photography!

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Tue Dec 27, 2011, 11:47 PM

Dec 2011

35mm film systems evolved over 80 or so years into every nook and cranny of imaging; from extreme telephoto to 10x life-size (a slide at 10x life-size would show an image 10x larger than the subject photographed) with off-the-shelf equipment. Digital is getting there but unless you want to DIY the systems just aren't there yet.

It's mostly a marketing decision--it takes volume to pay for R&D plus tooling and the demand isn't there yet. I've had to build several pieces of equipment to accomplish specific tasks that current systems can't provide for.

Digital is wonderful but it's just entering adolescence as a system.

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Macro(micro) photography magnification levels [View all] Major Nikon Dec 2011 OP

Nice post on close-in photography! flamin lib Dec 2011 #1

It took me many years to give up film Major Nikon Dec 2011 #2

Yeah, the early sensors and processors were nowhere as clean as the newest technology. flamin lib Dec 2011 #4

Thanks for the primer. I am awaiting my macro friendly tripod alfredo Dec 2011 #3