Hi......I hope that someone has one of these cameras and can offer some advice! Even when I set my camera to the Macro setting, I am still able to take close-up pictures of jewellery. The camera doesn't want to focus close up, and will only do so when the lens is roughly 10 inches away from the subject (earrings, brooches etc) meaning that the jewellery nowhere near fills the frame. This obviously isn't giving me the pictures I need for selling via the internet! I have a cheap compact digi camera that will take a picture of a small item resulting in a sharp pic which fills the frame.
Where am I going wrong with my digital SLR?
I would be so grateful for any suggestions!
Thank you for your time......kindest regards from Melanie.
The problem is that your lens is not designed for close focusing. The macro setting on your camera is meaningless. It does nothing to the lens. All it does is set the exposure based on the fact that you will be shooting close up shots. What you need is a macro lens. A macro lens is a lens designed to focus very closely on small objects and fill the frame. They are also very good for portraits as they have large apertures and are very sharp. The Olympus 50mm macro ($400) would be a very good choice.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/301932-REG/Olympus_261003_50mm_f_2_0_Macro_ED.html
You need to buy the proper lens for the macro setting.
Im not too keen on olympus cameras but I have taken out my friends Olympus and I find that Macro Zuikos 35 & 50 are very spectacular it requires you to get very close to your subject to produce a close image.
If you prefer not to get to close you can try a long focusing tube like the 70-300mm, pair it with a ex-25 tube and you;ll be able to keep your distance and still project closeup photography.
Your other option is to crop your images. Since you need to reduce the size of your images to post on the web, cropping will do the same thing.
your lens is the kit lens.
as stated, its not for closeups.
you need either the 35mm macro, the 50mm macro, or a cheaper option is buying closeup filters which attach to the front of the lens.
I have a close up filter that I use with this lens and it helped until I bought the 50mm.
Olympus makes great glass.
Also if you are selling prints, cropping for the internet will not help because you are then degrading the image unless you use a photoshop plugin that will allow you to blow up your image with minimal image quality loss.
Check out here for a close up filter set:
Cameta is where I get 90% of my gear.
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