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- September 5, 2021
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CANON RF 100mm/F2.8 MACRO – The macro superlense
Whenever I buy a new lense, I firmly check what I could do with this lense. Oh well, with the RF100 I couldn’t check first, since the lense is brandnew in 2021 and I never have done any macroshots before. So it is two times new things for me.
Let’s start the journey with the RF100 lense. According to the specs this is a pure monster lense. Whooping 100mm focal distance, with a length of almost 11cm and an open aperture of 2.8 it comes handy to take portraits. Yes, you can use it without any problems for that and you get supported by a in-lense stabilizer.
But lets focus more on the macro side of this lense. Why? Because you have two main reasons to use it for:
- a minimal focus distance of just 26cm from sensor level
- a magnification of 1:1.4 on full frame sensors
The minimal focus distance is stunning, when you substract the 11cm length of the lense from the 26cm focus distance, you can crouch as close as 15cm to the subject, you want to take a photo of and still get crisp sharp photos. That is really, really close. Even so close, that I was afraif to bump the lense to the subject from time to time.
Combine this focus distance with the 1.4 magnifaction, you get super close up from your subject. Just stunning and jaw dropping.
And some last specs, the RF100 is an Canon L-series lense, which means, you can see it from the outside by the red ring at the front, it has also special coated front glass elements to avoid glares and it has a rubber lip at the mounting end, which provides a weather seal against dunst and some little rain water. So you can use the pricy lense in harsh weather conditions.
The lense has also some new feature. With the SA-control ring you can control the spherical aberation. This control ring shifts some glass elements inside the lense and you have a certain control about the bouquet or bokeh. I didn’t try this by now, but there is soon another post about this specific feature.
Ok, now lets leave the specs behind and look more towards the macro functionality of the RF100.
As calculated above, you can crouch as close as 15cm to your subject you want to take some macro of. Combine it with the f2.8 aperture you get a super shallow field of depth. It can help to draw the viewers focus on a certain detail.
When you are new to macro-photography, you are eager to get to know some basic knowledge. First of all, the super shallow field of view introduces some hefty problems with wind. Even the slightest wind blow is changing the field of focus so dramatically, the sharpness is somewhere in outer space. This can be solved with the focus in servo mode and focusing on one point only. The servo mode dictates then to take your photos in burst mode, which then dictates a fast shutterspeed of at least 1/100s or faster.
There the aperture of f2.8 becomes handy now and if it does not meet the brightnees you need, you can increase the ISO a fair bit. Don’t worry about the noise, you can denoise later in post production quite a lot, since you have a lot of blur in the photo anyway.
If you need some inspiration what to shoot with a super macro monster Canon RF100 f2.8 L-series lense, take a look here.
We had a guest edit. Last weekend there was an Edit & Chill event of the LostCreatorAcademy @lostcreatoracademy) and @karina.ventures edited one photo of us.
She was given a macro of a pink flower (the 3rd photo) and edited some really poping flower inside shot. Thank you for this Karina 🙂
The second photo is my edit of the same shot.
Do you like the edit of Karina as well as we do? It is simply a mystical world inside a flower.
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As Sandra got a challenge yesterday, Maik tested out some gear.
With the use of the magnificent 100mm Macrolense and some starting rain, Maik shot this really close up of a pink waterlily. The rain poured some water droplets on the pink petal leaves and it made it so magically.
What do you think, should Maik continue with so close details of things by using the Macrolense more often?
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From time to time, Maik tests new gear and new features. I got recently a new macro lense called the RF100mm f2.8 L Macro and I absolutely love it.
With that lense you can do portraits as well as (and most important) super close macro shots. I managed it to crouch as close as 15cm to the subjects and this is such a wonderful and amazing world I was able to see through this lense. Take a look at the shots.
I struggled a bit with that super shallow field of depth, since wind is the biggest enemy you can have there. But setting the camera to focus servo, a relatively high shutter speed and the wide open aperture of f2.8 makes it flowing quite well to take photos in burst mode.
What do you think, should we soon start a quiz on super close up things?
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“Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.” Spring is really a magical season! Everything about it is just perfect. 👌 Happy Tuesday everyone and all the best for the rest of your week. Take care and God bless! 🌸
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💙 😯 Entoloma sp. My favourite find from my trip to Scotland 🏴 Huge thanks to mycobeemushrooms for organising the event. I had the best couple of days logged off in the forest with some great people. Attila and foragingwithvirn were INCREDIBLY knowledgeable, over 90 species identified, loads learnt and a fair few first time finds. Still buzzing. Until next time! ✌️👊
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