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Fuji X Pro-2 - Hasselblad H3Dii-31

Gigas

New member
Hello from Sweden and thank you for adding me! My interest is macro photography of ornamental shrimp in aquarium. These are about 1" long and I use my Fuji X pro-2 with a 1,4 teleconverter plus an 11mm extension ring. That combination gives me a 84mm macro lens that works for me. To freeze these little shrimp I use studio flash from above and beside the lens. Settings are ISO 100-200, 250/sec. f10-8 and that works for me. But I like to step up to a bigger format for more details and tonality. Would a medium format like H3Dii-31 with a 120mm f4,0 macro give a rather big jump in quality of detail, colours and sharpness?
DSCF7936zz by Peder Lundgren, on Flickr
 

Shashin

Well-known member
Ironically, a smaller sensor camera has an advantage in macro/micro photography. You need less magnification to fill the frame and have more depth of field. Because you need more lens extension with a medium-format lens to fill the frame, you are also losing more light.

Having said that, I use a Pentax 645D with a 120mm f/4 macro lens. I have shot live animals. It is possible. Since you are using artificial light, you may be able to compensate for the limits of shooting larger formats at large magnifications. I also have an X Pro2. The 645D makes higher quality images. Not knowing that particular Hasselblad model, I can't speak to its flexibility.

Here are some shots of small things I have done for fun with the 645D and 120mm macro.



The light was just a household light bulb. The gap in the screen is about 1.5mm.



 
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