1st attempt on Red Ants

[pyloh]

Please help to correct me. Thanks!

Equipement used : D80+kit lens+filter(+4+4+2)+SB900

[pyloh]

[tchuanye]

Good first try. The focus is about right, with some misses, but the lens quality is abit poor. Which close up lens are you using? For better quality, go for the achromatic ones...abit more costly but IQ is good.

For single element lens, good for the center, poor at the edges. So if you crop out the edges it is still ok sometimes.

[pyloh]

Originally Posted by tchuanye Good first try. The focus is about right, with some misses, but the lens quality is abit poor. Which close up lens are you using? For better quality, go for the achromatic ones...abit more costly but IQ is good. For single element lens, good for the center, poor at the edges. So if you crop out the edges it is still ok sometimes.

hi, thanks for your feedback. I'm using the D80 kit lens with close up filter, the close up filter is from Hoya. I'm new to photography, what's a Achromatic lens??? is the Nikkor 105mm Macro lens a Achromatic lens??

[tchuanye]

Originally Posted by pyloh hi, thanks for your feedback. I'm using the D80 kit lens with close up filter, the close up filter is from Hoya. I'm new to photography, what's a Achromatic lens??? is the Nikkor 105mm Macro lens a Achromatic lens??

Those hoya lens that comes in a set are single element lens.
you can google on acrhomatic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achromatic_lens
So these lens are better made lens with better IQ. Not used to define macro lens.