Hi,
So I take the camera out into the backyard ...
I have a curry leaf tree that has fronds with many leaves and berries at the extremity of the frond.
I thought, "I wonder what those berries would look like with this lens and with that lens etc. etc?".
I set up the camera to concentrate on a frond that extends straight towards the lens.
When I try to get a close up photo I can see the focus coming up the frond towards me as I rack the camera out ... the rear berries are now in focus ... but ...
Just as I think the front berries will come into focus I seem to keep extending the camera many inches and get a blur.
For the camera position - and hence a magnification ratio - I cannot get the photo.
So.
I guess it makes sense and it happens with lenses in other formats too its just that I've not tried such close up photos with an LF camera.
(BTW - I was just trying to focus at full aperture ... if aperture makes a difference at these magnification ratios then please let me know. Its dark outside now.)
The lenses I've had a look through are a Petzval, a Xenar, a Stellor and a Heliar.
My question, what older lenses could do 1:1? Were there any? So if one were to get into close-up (or closer up) LF photography I'm assuming one would buy a lens suited to close-up work...
For some reason I thought all LF lenses would do 1:1 but I knew some were built for the purpose. The Stellor wouldn't do a still life of 3 pears which wasn't near 1:1 ... I thought I was going mad!
Cheers,
Steve
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