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Using the 80mm macro / X-T30 for a team portrait of Basel University's Physiological Plant Ecology Group meant I had to stand quite far away from them – but I'm happy with the result: More example photos in Jonas Rask's blog.
Jonas Rask's review and example pictures helped me make the decision. tl;dr Is it worth its price? If you're into macro photography I'd say yes. Unboxing It's heavy! The sound and feeling as if something in the lens is loose is normal and disappears when you turn on the camera Settings Too little haptic feedback …
In my opinion the extension tubes MCEX-11 & MCEX-16 are not a must if you already have a macro lens, but are useful if you'd like to use your other lenses for macro. The three pictures below are handheld, using both tubes at once, and only cropped to square. --- 60mm macro with MCEX-11 (Xylocopa …
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XF60 without extension tubes / with the MCEX-11 / with the MCEX-16 / with both tubes. No extension tubes, f2.4 - f22 See also MCEX-11 and MCEX16 used with the X-T1, May 2015.
See also Raynox DCR-250 for macro, December 2013. I did some tests and the tele converter is better suited for the kind of macro pictures I want to take (pictures 1-8) than the DCR-250 (picture 9): the pictures are sharper, there is more depth of field available and the tele converter has many other uses …
See also Tele converter for macro, June 2014 When I was trying to find out about the macro mode on the Fujifilm X100s I couldn't find any pictures that satisfied my curiosity. So here are some examples. The pictures are cropped, but apart from that sooc. My conclusions so far: The X100s in macro mode …
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