Macro Photography

How to take close-up pictures of small things?

Taking close-up pictures of small things is called "macro photography." I have no idea why. Perhaps because the small things in macro photography are generally larger than the things you are taking pictures of when doing "micro photography". If you really want to be pedantic then you should say you are doing "photomacrography".

If you feel like spending a lot of money then what you want is a 6x6 cm Rollei 6008. The 120/4 Zeiss Makro-Planar (same lens as for a Hasselblad) will set you back about $3400. That's right, you could buy a Nikon 105/2.8 macro lens and three N90 bodies for the price of the Rollei lens alone.
Rollei probably has the most intelligently designed macro system in the world.

dredits: Philip Greenspun - read his full article here:
http://www.photo.net/learn/macro/

It's very interesting.

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