Thank you, this was very helpful for me, because I use the RX10IV and asked myself, whether the NISI-lens will function there. So I got my buying decision. Enjoying your Video and Pictures made.
I was the same as you, I wasn't certain, but went ahead and bought it anyway. I can honestly say. The Nisi close up lens is amazing, as you will find out shortly. 🙂
Very interesting test thank you for that, I do have a few questions for you, you show examples and wrote the number of stacked photos but what was the aperture you set ? f4 ? f5.6 ? f8 ? more ? alors can you use autofocus or not atg all ? for example if I want to use it handhold at 30cm distance for example to come a bit closer at full telephoto ?
I honestly can't remember the F-stop settings I used. You want to use manual focus only, and lock it, then move the dial back and forth a quarter of a turn, or less plus use a remote trigger. to take the photo's.
@@GarryPurcell YES! I have it already! The images are great! Now, I need to learn how to focus it easier. This weekend will go to the butterfly house and will play with this lens there. Thanks for the great advise!
For macro style close ups, a quick way is to lock your camera to manual focus and set your camera to continuous shooting, focus as the best you can, then move in and out slightly from the target. You will get many photos that are not in focus, but you will also get the ones that are. I'd suggest you do some practice runs at home on some flowers, or plants, so you get a better understanding of how the Nisi Lens works. P.S. The Close-up Macro world is now open to you, happy exploring.
How did you take the stack? Was it with small changes in manual focus or by touch pad on various areas of the subject? Or was it with your Neweer macro mount? Focus bracketing is what the RX10 lacks so it would be nice to know how you do it. Thanks!
You can use differrent ways to stack photos with the Sony RX10 IV 1. Hand held continuous shutter with manual focus locked, and camera pulled in, or away from subject. 2. Focus rail, with incremental distance adjustments, towards, or away from subject, with manual focus locked, and single shutter release.
Thanks for the video and test. Question: What is the zoom level. My experience with other procucts is 85 mm (on the Sony RX10m3) is working fine. Anything beyond that is not usable, unless using focus stacking, and this does not work with moving insects.
You left viewers with confusion regarding the difference between step up and step down rings. Both the adapters you showed are step up from a smaller lens thread (67 or 72mm) to the larger accessory thread (77mm). Step down rings are, for example, provided with the NiSi 49mm kit which allow a larger lens thread (62 or 67mm) to accept the smaller (49mm) accessory. This difference becomes very important to those of us with lenses that are not one of the sizes provided. NiSi dodged the question by marking their adapters '67mm adapter' but third party ones of the same size would read either 67-77 or 62-77 for the large accessory you reviewed. Good video, otherwise.
Thanks for your constructive criticism. Generally Step-up and Step-down rings are sold as a set, so you would normally choose the correct ones for your setup.
Do check before you buy a set that the specific sizes you need are included. I recently needed a 46-49 step up and an 58-49 step down but neither were in the large set I saw offered. In some cases like 52-77 you might have to use a stack of four rings to make it.
