yep - any DSLR with a good macro lens - either (older MF manual lens) manual or this modern stuff will give you really good close ups, IF you take your time, position the watch correctly and get your exposure settings and lighting correct - plus experimentation - but watches are not an easy subjectOriginally Posted by Pilkboids
I have the same camera and it's outstanding. Except the tips about light so is my advise to shoot in (A)perture mode and with manual focus.
If you shot with high F-stop there are no need for some focus stacking.
Good luck.
Jocke,you have some cracking images. What lenses are you using and what’s your typical lighting?
At the moment I use a Nikon D850 with a Zeiss 100mm Macro Planar lens, a LED panel with adjustable light and color tempetature, Manfrotto tripod and a home made soft box of white plexiglass.
It looks like this.
Similar to Jocke - I use my Nikon D850 with a Nikkor 105mm micro f2.8mm, which give 1:1 image at 10.5cm from the focal plane (from the sensor to object distance) - otherwise much the same. I bought a light box off amazon while back... The PITA is reflections - even with a light box there are sometimes difficult to get rid of.
I have the Nikon 105mm too and it's a great lens and with working auto focus at that time it is needed. I even have a Laowa 60mm macro lens that come really close but it is very tricky to use IMHO.
It's definitely all about the light (and depth of field, as Jocke mentioned). With today's cameras, even without a macro lens you can crop close enough that IQ is still right up there, albeit that a macro lens is certainly more fit for purpose when it comes to watch photography.
This is the default set-up that I use, although I'll often dispense with the on-camera flash and may switch the lights around a bit if I can be bothered. I have no dedicated shooting area and almost no room to manoeuvre and reflections can be a b*stard, but it works well enough most of the time. Oh, and I'll sometimes use a snoot on one of the lights, instead of an umbrella.
I really look forward to see what you come up with when you put battery in your flashes. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣It's definitely all about the light (and depth of field, as Jocke mentioned). With today's cameras, even without a macro lens you can crop close enough that IQ is still right up there, albeit that a macro lens is certainly more fit for purpose when it comes to watch photography.
This is the default set-up that I use, although I'll often dispense with the on-camera flash and may switch the lights around a bit if I can be bothered. I have no dedicated shooting area and almost no room to manoeuvre and reflections can be a b*stard, but it works well enough most of the time. Oh, and I'll sometimes use a snoot on one of the lights, instead of an umbrella.
I use a portable flash unit inside one of various soft boxes, set it up in the garage then put the light off so im in darkness some of the time then bounce the flash off a ceiling or wall( not literally). Getting hot spots very often though.
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If anyone wants to add Macro shots here tgen feel free and i can change the name of the thread to” show your macro shots”. Good to see the set ups as well.
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If anyone wants to add Macro shots here tgen feel free and i can change the name of the thread to” show your macro shots”. Good to see the set ups as well.
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