Let’s Get Up Close with Extension Tubes | Photography Statistics

If you want to get up close to your subject, closer than you can by setting your lens to its minimum focusing distance, then extension tubes are an excellent way of doing so. When you turn the focusing ring of your lens away from infinity, the front element moves out from the lens body. The distance between the front element and the sensor (or film) plane is called extension. When your lens is set to its minimum focusing distance, the front element can move no further forward. You have reached the limit of the lens’s design. An extension tube is a hollow tube that fits between your lens and camera body. It moves the lens further away, increasing the extension of the front element……

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