Hi everyone,

Hope you’ve all had a great Christmas. This morning to pass the time with no public transport running around here, nothing open, the weather dull, dreary and pretty uninviting and no way of getting anywhere interesting I thought I’d do a very lazy and simple macro shot of my new watch. Thing of beauty as it is it’s the only thing I can do with the watch as it needs quite a few links removed as I don’t have wrists like an Olympic weight lifter and, anyway, there’s no jewellers open in the foreseeable future until we come out of lockdown again. whenever that might be. I decided not to use my normal macro setup and just pop my Sigma ART 60mm lens, a very affordable and very sharp lens, plus Olympus M-CON macro converter on my Olympus E-PL5, stick it on a tripod with a self-timer and light it with an overhead LED light, it doesn’t get much more simple than that.

No focus stacking, just a plain and simple macro shot. Macro doesn’t have to be expensive. It’s like any other form of photography it can be (become) 🙂 as expensive and technical as you want to make it.

Kind regards

Leigh

Hi everyone,

I share his thinking on size, weight and the difference between expensive, faster, and by definition, heavy, lenses and their more affordable counterparts as well as photographic philosophy. I own quite a few of the small lenses that he features in the video (Panasonic Lumix, 12-32mm and 20mm 1.7, Olympus 17mm 1.8, 25mm 1.8 and 45mm 1.8) and they’re all extremely good as is the Lumix 14mm 2.5, another great little pancake lens. Another bonus I should perhaps mention is that the 14mm, 17mm, 20mm and 25mm all have a 46mm filter thread and the 12-32 and 45mm have a 37mm filter thread so it’s economical on filters and interchangeability.

Kind regard, Leigh