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There are quite a few options for macro photography and I will briefly touch on those and move on to what I use and recommend after years of macro photography. This video will be primarily covering the gear required for wildlife and other kinds of macro photography.

For a more formal definition, refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_p....

As always, I will try and avoid the tech and jargon and stick to the practical side. The formulae and details for magnification and how tubes affect the aperture are all available on a variety of places on the net and YouTube.

1. Reverse Ring

This is one of the options that allows you to mount your kit lens (generally) with the front element reversed. Yes, like all the options I will touch upon, I have tried all this and although it might be good fun, but, not recommended for a variety of reasons. If you happen to get your lens stuck...

2. Diopters

These are generally simple magnifying glasses that attach to your lenses as a lens filter to give a magnified image. In general, they have high diffraction and will not provide a reasonable image quality.

3. Lens Stacking.

This is essentially where you reverse a shorter focal length lens over a longer one using an adapter. Again, while this might sound geeky and fun, that is all it is. I would not recommend trying this. Both #1 and this use specific adapter sizes and can only be used with the same lens filter size.

4. Extension Tubes.

This is where you put empty tubes in between your lens and the camera to achieve magnification with any lens that you might have. Extension tubes are easy and safe to use. This is the method I would recommend for all who want to start with macro photography, but, are not ready to invest in a macro lens.

5. Macro Lens.

This is the right way to go and there is no replacement for a real 1:1 macro lens. One of the reasons I recommend the extension tubes is the fact that you can use the tubes with a true macro lens to achieve even more magnification. The 1:1 means that you get a 10mm subject as 10mm on the image sensor also called "life-size".

Once again, there is no replacement for a true macro lens and we will look at the reasons in this and future videos. For this video, I will only talk about the gear one should get to start with macros.

6. There are other combinations, but, we will get into that later...Much later.

Let's talk more about the Extension Tubes and then the Macro Lens...

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