Playing around with close-up photography is a lot of fun, especially once you have invested in a dedicated macro lens for your camera. However, macro lenses may not be able to give you as much depth ...

If you’ve ever played around with macro photography, you’ve likely noticed that the higher the lens magnification, the less the depth of field. One way around this issue is to take several slices at ...

YouTuber “Curious Scientist” has published a new project showing how you can use Arduino together with a a few extras to create a macro photography rig enabling you to capture close-up photographs.

Focus stacking makes for fantastic macro images, but the process can be tedious without the right tools. While some focus stacking rigs require the camera to be moved away from the subject in small ...

To capture sharp, detailed close-up images, you need to focus with pinpoint accuracy and carefully consider the depth of field. While there will be occasions when you want to use a shallow zone of ...

I used a phone and a macro lens to get these great close-up shots of insects and plants. Here are some tips on how to do the same whether you use an iPhone or an Android phone. Andrew Lanxon Editor at ...

Researchers constructed a focus stacking set-up made of consumer grade products with better end results than high-end solutions and this at only a tenth of the price of current existing systems.

After bringing Post Focus technology to its cameras last year, Panasonic is now letting the camera do the heavy lifting with a built-in focus stacking feature. Today, Panasonic is bringing its Post ...

Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus. I've covered cameras at PCMag for the past 14 years, which has given me a front row seat for the changeover from DSLRs to mirrorless cameras, ...

A distance scale is printed on top of the barrel, so you can see if you're shooting at 1:4, 1:3, 1:2, or 1:1 life-size magnification. Because of the extension, focus is on the loud side, and rather ...