#BEGINNING NIKON MACRO LENS MANUAL#

However, they tend to be heavier with a narrower maximum aperture. That means you’re more likely to get smooth bokeh and less likely to frighten off any shy insects or block natural light-especially when using a lens hood or if your lens doesn’t have internal focusing. So you’ll have to make a few trade-offs.įor example, longer lenses allow you a greater working distance from your subject. Unfortunately, some of these features conflict. Image stabilization (if you shoot handheld).

Maximum aperture (for low-light conditions).Working distance at 1:1 (i.e., the distance from the front of the lens to the subject, which is confusingly less than the minimum focusing distance, measured from the sensor plane).Magnification (1:1 reproduction ratio or better).Here are eight factors to consider when choosing a macro lens: However, most macro lenses’ sharpness and wide maximum apertures mean they’re also suited to portrait work-if you can find one that focuses fast enough! Macro photography creates the most beautiful images of the natural world with maximum convenience.

#BEGINNING NIKON MACRO LENS MANUAL#

However, there is still a full-time manual override. The Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM) makes sure that the autofocus system is fast, accurate, and quiet. That means the lens stays the same length at all times. The floating inner focusing system moves two lens groups around independently to achieve internal focus. At the same time, the Super Multi-Layer Coating improves contrast by reducing flare and ghosting. Special Low Dispersion (SLD) and High Refractive index (HR) glass corrects field curvature and chromatic and spherical aberration.

And it has an Optical Stabilizer (OS) to facilitate handheld close-ups. It features internal focusing and an extra blade in the diaphragm to improve bokeh and reduce vignetting. And the working distance of 14.6 cm (6.9″) is decent enough. The third-generation medium telephoto macro lens is an overhaul of the previous version. The S igma 105mm f/2.8 is our top choice. As a side note, Unbeknownst to many people Nikon made excellent large format lenses for a very long time but got out of that business maybe 5-6 years ago and still has a very active and profitable scientific instrument business.If you buy a product through one of our referral links we will earn a commission (without costing you anything). Macro-Nikkors were developed for true macro work in the 1: and greater range ( 2:1 means that an object a half inch long in reality would be recorded as 1 inch long on film and they were primariy ldevelpedfor larger format film formats or for use in microscopesand micro-photogrpahy. Later the Japanese goverment simplified Kanji and moved away from hand written official documents. German or American or British optical designs of the era were simply not up to the task as they were designed to reproduce the much less intricate letter forms. and at that time storing documents on microfiche was high tech stuff that was much in demand. This was in the post WWI era when Japan was occupied by the U.S.A. They were originally primarily developed for use at copying the intricities of the Japanese lettering (Kanji) in use atthe time accurately and with all of the original's subtle graphic properties on 35mm film as way of storing documents. The Micro-Nikkor lenses can of course like all lenses be made to work at 1:1 or greater magnification ratios ( object size to image size on sensor/film) but for close up up work they were orginally designed to reproduce things in the 1:1 to 1:4 or thereabouts reproduction ratio ( meaning something 1 inch long in the real world would record crisply on film as a quarter inch long or quarter size).

Beginning nikon macro lens