Macro Photography - fabulous when you finally get it right... or in focus.

The slightest breeze makes the flower/plant wave around like it's in storm yet you feel no breeze around you!

Trying to take these types of images when you are near a water body of some sorts makes it even worse.

It's a struggle to get the right settings... higher ISO means more 'noise' but to get the faster shutter speed with such a low slice of focus area (depth of field is drastically reduced to a tiny slither with Macro!) means you take 100's of images and you might get one where it looks right.

The viewfinder on the camera (eye or the little monitor screen) looks in focus even when zooming in... but yet, when seen on a large monitor at home... nope... fuzzy and not in a good way.

Frustrating!

I am without a Macro Lens at the moment so I have used a mixture of extension tubes with a cropped sensor 50mm lens and I recently got the Nisi Macro NC Macro Close-Up Lens II (not an affiliate link) to use on my 24/200mm Zoom full sensor lens - the latter I am finding the quality is a lot better. chromatic aberration are not a huge factor as with the extension tubes - I do wonder if the little cropped sensor 50mm lens is contributing as it isn't a top range lens.

I hope to buy the Macro lens for Nikon Mirrorless at some point.