dead beetle taken in closeup with Leica M4 and bellows
Toronto. Well, May 2o23 is but a memory. I guess the late Freddie Mercury said it best (just ignore how he looks).
Speaking of closeups, capturing photos of tiny objects at life size or even larger takes extra care with the film camera, lighting and tripod.
And you need a means to extend the lens to film distance, usually by extension tubes or a bellows but occasionally by closeup lens elements (most standard focal length lenses cover down to 1 metre or in some cases a 1/2 metre).
If you haven’t attempted closeups, be sure to try them. The magnification sheds a whole new light on what were otherwise mundane subjects. Today’s digital technology with auto focus down to a few inches/cm kinda spoils closeups – and auto focus in itself can be a real challenge…
Many books cover closeup techniques. One excellent book is “The Manual of Close-Up Photography“, a soft cover book c1979 (not 1784 as listed) by Lester Lefkowitz and published by Amphoto. I learned a lot from Mr Lefkowitz and occasionally loaned this book to friends.
