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If you just want to record what you see in your backyard, a good quality smartphone maybe all you need. A phone with a lot of megapixels and a telephoto lens will capture images in reasonable detail....
Although features provided by your camera body are important for photography, it’s the quality of your lens that will determine how good your images appear. So, what lens is best for bird...
More Telephoto Lens Magnification with Macro Extension Tubes
If you have found your way to this article you probably know what extension tubes are or have at least heard of them. If by some chance you don’t know what they are check out my article What are...
By using a longer extension tube, you can increase the magnification of the lens and focus closer to the subject. This distance is known as the Minimum Focusing Distance (MFD), or the closest the...
Do Extension Tubes Cause Shallow Depth of Field with Telephoto lenses
If you use a telephoto lens to photograph birds or wildlife you may have experienced a shallow depth of field causing part of your subject being blurred. Often, we want a shallow dept of field to...
Minimum Focusing Distance of Sigma 150-600 with Extension Tubes – Enough for Macro?
You can't change the optics of the telephoto lens to change it into a macro lens but you can make it focus closer to the subject by using extension tubes. But will that get you close enough to reveal...