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CLOSE-UP LENSES
Close-up lenses are attached to the front of the camera's primary lens, reducing the minimum subject to lens distance by a half or more.
Close-up Lens
A Close-up Lens is a lens that accentuates the power of the close-up, such as a telephoto or a macro lens.
Close-Up Lens A lens attachment placed in front of a camera lens to permit taking pictures at a closer distance than the camera lens alone will allow.
Close-up lens. An attachment placed in front of an ordinary lens to allow focusing at a shorter distance in order to increase image size.
Close-Up Lens: A lens attachment that permits a lens to focus closer that normal. Usually sold in sets of three, with each close-up lens a different strength for focusing at varying distances.
Close-up lenses (filters): Often described as "the poor man's macro" close-up lenses are single-element (or occasionally two-element achromatic) meniscus lenses, similar to those in reading glasses, ...
CLOSE-UP LENSES/FILTERS
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Close-up lens
A lens attachment used in front of the camera lens; pictures then could be taken at a closer distance than normal.
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CLOSE-UP LENS - (1) An attachment lens that fits on the front of a camera lens, allowing photography at closer distances than than normal for that lens. (2) Also refers to a "Macro lens" - a camera lens that permits macrophotography.
close-up lens:
Lens that allows close photography; also called a macro lens.
CMYK: ...
Close-up lens. A lens add-on, resembling a filter, that allows you to take pictures at a distance that is less than the closest-focusing distance of the prime lens alone.
-Close-up lens - see Close-up attachment.
-CMYK - abbreviation for cyan, magenta, yellow and black. It is the colors used in a four color printing process.
Close-up lenses are a bit like reading glasses, they are attached to the front of the lens and their strength is measured in diopters. So a +2 diopter lens will focus closer than a +1 etc.
Close-up lens
Extension tube
Teleconverter
Macro lens
A close-up lens looks more like a filter than a lens. It screws on the front of a regular lens and allows the lens to focus closer.
Close-up lens: poor man's macro
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I prefer close-up lenses for this type of work, because there is no light loss.
external close-up lenses (Nexus)
custom filters for shooting over-unders (Subal)
levers and knobs to access virtually all the camera controls (all).
Diopters, or Close-up lens
A diopter, also called a close-up lens, acts like a filter, and screws onto the front of the lens.
Placing an auxiliary close-up lens in front of the camera's taking lens. Inexpensive screw-in or slip-on attachments provide close focusing at very low cost.
They include a close-up lens, slide holder, and a diffuser for even illumination. Some models feature zooming for up to 2.5X life-size. You simply point the duplicator at a light source and shoot.
These included close-up lenses that allow your camera to focus closer than it naturally can. They also include wide-angle attachments that allow your fixed lens to capture more of a scene than it otherwise could.
n an ideal world, every serious photographer would carry a close-up lens, a wide-angle lens and a long telephoto all the time, so that just about any situation would be covered.
Canon makes two-element close-up lenses with a strength of 2.0 in 52mm, 58mm, 72mm and 77mm size, as well as 4.0 strength diopters in 52mm and 58mm sizes. How either company determined what to offer is beyond me.
MACRO LENS - A lens with the ability to focus from infinity to extremely closely, allowing it to capture images of tiny objects in frame-filling, larger-than-life sizes. Sometimes called a "Close-up lens, ...
A cheaper option is to use close-up lenses or extension tubes that fit onto your standard lens.
Close-up lenses fit over the main lens and let you get closer to the subject. They magnify the subject without affecting aperture settings.
With point-and-shoot type cameras with fixed lenses, you can often get a close-up lens that screws into the front of the lens on the camera and enables you to get closer to your subject and get a larger photo of small or tiny subjects.
Lens Accessories
Canon 500D Close-up Lens
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If you are aiming for a glamorous close-up shot as in NYI Student Patricia Fielder's photo of her cat, you will want to use a close-up lens and be very quiet so you don't interrupt kitty's trance. Oh, what beautiful fur this cat has! ...
If you get hooked on macro photography, you might want a macro lens that focuses down to 1:1 (life size image on film) without adding a close-up lens. A 100mm macro is a good choice since it allows more working distance than a 50mm macro.
Diopter
Unit for measuring a lens' refractive power. In photography, the term is used with close-up lenses and corrections to the viewfinder to adjust it to the user's eyesight.
I was a kid and had made a close-up lens from a magnifier and attached it to my dad's Argus C3. That camera was no SLR, so I had to make a focus-and-frame stick to aid in those areas.
2. Interchangeable lenses give you incredible creative control over your image, from "fisheye" wide-angles, to super telephotos for sports and wildlife, or close-up lenses for a unique look at the world.
Diopter
Optical term for the power of a lens. Photographically, it is typically used to indicate the magnification and focal length of close-up lenses.
Attached to the front of a lens its magnification ratio ability is increased by shortening the focusing distance. 0, 1, 2, 3T, 4T for 52mm diameter lenses; and 5T & 6T for 62mm, are the Nikon close-up lenses available.
requires a number of different accessories, including a macro lens, an extension tube to attach a lens to the camera and a reversing ring (an attachment allowing the photographer to attach the lens backwards). Other tools, such as a close-up lens or ...
To lighten the load, I carry the 70-200mm f/4L IS instead of the 100-400mm and a Canon 250D close-up lens instead of the macro lens. That limits distant shots, but it can work, especially with the extender and extension tube.
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