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Rusty » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:31 am
Even though I said in an earlier post that I doubted I would get enough use out of tubes to justify the purchase, I just read an article yesterday that may cause me to rethink that statement. This had to do with techniques to get "great landscapes".
The photographer was talking about a vast panorama with objects in the very near foreground (wildflowers, rocks, etc) in sharp focus along with equally sharp focus in midranges and the far background. Even with extreme wide angle lenses (less than 20mm), he routinely used a 25mm extension tube. This allowed him to focus extremely close to the end of the lens and, I guess, preserves the "normal" depth of field of the lens.
I'm not ready to rush out and buy a tube, but it was food for thought.
Rusty