Last year I have started taking photos of berries ( tiny little fruits) for a conceptual project which can be related to the photo animation "Powers of Ten" . I have built a camera by attaching two 4x5 cameras and I got an extension about 80 cm's to get a close up photo of a blueberry filling the frame of 4x5 film, it is way way more than 1:1 ratio. But my challenge wasn't technical to start with but pretty much related to scale and perception. But once you start experimenting with such things you cannot avoid technical challenges which is sometimes fun. As for the details I have been using two Linhof cameras broken apart and reassembled to get a 80 cm's long camera with 150 lens . My aperture was around F11 and I was working with strobes firing once. The depth of field came up really shallow as expected. Although I liked the soft results with a very shallow depth of field I am still looking for a better option to bring this project further. And yes I am looking for your recommendations.
After a research I came across to Apo Macro Sironar lenses, but these beautifully made and extremely expensive lenses do not make sense for someone who is simply experimenting with the size of the things in the universe. If you have some good recommendations for my experiment I will never forget your name ...
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