{"id":13798,"date":"2015-05-04T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=13798"},"modified":"2015-05-04T18:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:36:30","slug":"impatience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=13798","title":{"rendered":"Impatience!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fuji has a very exciting lens on the Lens Road Map<\/strong>, at least for me! \u00a0 The 120mm Micro f 2.8 is not due to arrive until sometime in 2016! \u00a0I am sure it will be fantastic, everything else these guys have made is! \u00a0I can’t wait, well, I’m going t have to wait, but I sure am looking forward to a longer macro lens that goes 1:1! \u00a0 I have several option that are working now, but a few weeks ago Rokinon announced a 100mm Macro f 2.8 lens that goes to 1:1. \u00a0 It sounded interesting so I picked one up to check it out. \u00a0I did a little test with several lenses I use for close-up work in addition to the 60mm Micro from Fuji. \u00a0Below are some sample images of my Tascam hand held recorder, or a small part of it. \u00a0You can draw your own conclusions but my estimation is that if you do not have a longer Micro with 1:1 capabilities the Rokinon is a great deal for less than $600. \u00a0The Nikkor 105 mm Micro f 2.8 is even better deal and lens and can be purchased for much less than $600. in mint condition, but the downside is it only goes stop 1\/2 life size. \u00a0A 200mm Micro Nikkor will cost you a lot more, but does go 1:1 and at much greater working distance, downside? \u00a0It cost nearly two grand, of you can find one. \u00a0If you do a lot of close-up work it is worth it, “if you can’t wait for the Fuji 100 mm Macro.” \u00a0The last option is the most reasonable, most convent and the least painful on your wallet. \u00a0If \u00a0you already own the 180-135 Fuji zoom, (and if you don’t, it is being discounted right now!!!) A 67mm to 77 mm step up ring and Canon 500D Close-up diopter does a terrific hop and you can zoom for image size! \u00a0You can’t get as close, obviously, but for many folks 1\/4 life size is close-enough!<\/p>\n

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Here are the test shots of each:<\/p>\n

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First the 105mm Micro Nikkor (all images shot at f 11)<\/p>\n

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The Rokinon 100mm f 2.8 Macro<\/p>\n

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200mm Micro Nikkor<\/p>\n

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The Fuji 18-135 super zoom with he Canon 500D<\/p>\n

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So there you have it, a lot of ways to get to approximately the same place. \u00a0Fortunately it all works, just some options are more convenient than the others. \u00a0Good technique and being careful and you can make it happen. \u00a0Isn’t this photography thing fun!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Fuji has a very exciting lens on the Lens Road Map, at least for me! \u00a0 The 120mm Micro f 2.8 is not due to arrive until sometime in 2016! \u00a0I am sure it will be fantastic, everything else these guys have made is! \u00a0I can’t wait, well, I’m going t have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13798"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13811,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798\/revisions\/13811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}