About 8 months ago I bought a macro lens for my Fujifilm camera. For those people who did not realise or know there are a lot of ways to expand the functionality of your camera. A large proportion of the Bridge camera out there have a threaded lense that allows the addition of supplementary lenses. In my opinion the macro lense is so much fun. I enjoy taking pictures of wild flowers abd small insects. Once zoomed in on their level, the photo starts to drag you away from a human sized world and into a much stranger and tinyer place. If you do want to buy anything for your camera, I would advise you to make sure the size fits your camera. For instance; my fujifilm has a 55mm lense and my Nikon has a 52mm lens, so when buying a new camera, you may have to buy new accessories.
I noticed a really interesting thing a few weeks ago. I was holding up my macro lense and I noticed that the world through the lense was a magnified upsidedown fisheyed view of the world. I thought to myself that would make a cool photo. I put the lense a foot or so in front of the camera and tried to focus on the lens. For the life of me I could not get it to focus on the scene coming through the lens. After a final bit of finagling I manged to get it focused, abut a metre away from the camera. It seems that I had forgoten how brilliant the human eye is. Without word or command I could focus my eye through the lense at virtually any angle. However the optics of the camera is just not good enough and only a tiny window of focal depth was achievable.
They say the pen is mightier than the sword.
The eye it seems is definately mightier than the camera (at least in this case!)
They say the pen is mightier than the sword.
The eye it seems is definately mightier than the camera (at least in this case!)
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