Digital Macro Photography for Scientists and Scholars
This section of our site is intended for professionals such as entomologists, botanists, biologists, zoologists, archeologists, geologists, mineralogists, archivists, and other researchers interested professional equipment and technology for Digital Macro photography.
What separates professional Digital Macro Photography from amateur and artistic users is the need for greater resolution, greater magnification, greater depth of field, and greater three-dimensional representations of subjects. Concomitantly, meeting these needs requires greater stability, higher resolution cameras and backs, more accurate lenses, greater stability and parallelism, and specialized lighting and lighting techniques which allow professional Macro photographers to light small structures using the same principles of lighting that product photographers use to bring out the dimensionality of a product.
This section of our site, Digital Macro Photography for Scientists and Scholars, will be updated frequently as new technologies such as multi spectral and hyper spectral devices, and lenses optimized for UV and IR come on line, as well as the myriad of specialized tools for holding small objects.
Please keep in mind that the turnkey solutions offered here are suggestions, and modular. Components can be procured individually on an a la carte basis to augment existing systems, or recombined.