Macro Photography – An Introduction
Transcript Tyson Sugihara: Hey everybody. It’s Tyson Sugihara here, and welcome back to this week’s blog and podcast. This week we are going to talk about macro photography. I just picked up this crazy new lens—crazy and new for me. It’s the Canon MPE-65 Millimeter Macro, and it is a macro specialty lens. I’ve had other macro lenses in the past that could be used for a wide variety of things. I had one that was 100 millimeter. They call it a macro, but you could use it for portraiture photography as well, which is very popular amongst the macro lenses. This one is specifically and purely for macro photography. The big thing here is that a lot of people confuse macro photography with close-up photography, and there are many lenses that allow you to do close-up photography. However, true macro (meaning giving you a 1:1 aspect ratio) is something that does require a little more specialty use in specialty features on the lens. This particular lens will go 1:1 to 5:1, and you can see the results that I’ve posted here, and that of course, will be on the screen right now. This is just my first couple of weeks with this lens, and I’ve got to tell you, honestly, I don’t know that it’s the first macro lens that I would suggest anybody purchase unless you know that’s exactly what you want to do, that’s all you want to do, and you’re willing to put in a lot of time, effort, frustration, and a lot of “insert expletive here” because this is a very challenging lens to use. Let’s go through [...]