Focus Stacking Some Coffee Beans

Where we require great depth of field, particularly with close up images, the mechanism of focus stacking is a great solution. As an example, the image below of the single coffee bean was captured using the Nikon 105mm f/2.8G VR Micro (Macro) lens together with the Nikon TC20E III teleconverter. The use of these two… Continue reading Focus Stacking Some Coffee Beans

Focus Stacking With The Nikon 200mm Micro Lens

What is Focus Stacking? Focus stacking is essentially capturing a series of multiple images with the camera and focussing on areas of the subject from the closest to the furtherest distance of the subject and getting multiple image in between. Then all the images are combined into a single final image. I use the set… Continue reading Focus Stacking With The Nikon 200mm Micro Lens

Modified Nikon PB-6 Bellows Units – Focusing Rail – Nodal Rail

Nikoin PB-6 Bellows Unit

The above unit is a standard Nikon PB-6 bellows unit which I have had for many years and it was excellent to use with the older manual focus Nikon lenses and also with the D-series auto focus lens for extreme close up images. It is not so easy to use with the current G-series lenses.… Continue reading Modified Nikon PB-6 Bellows Units – Focusing Rail – Nodal Rail