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purephotos
27-05-2009, 9:46pm
Hey guys, I recently built a ring light with LED's but am having trouble focusing it to shorter distances for macro work, an ideas?

-R

Viper
27-05-2009, 10:38pm
Hey guys, I recently built a ring light with LED's but am having trouble focusing it to shorter distances for macro work, an ideas?

-R

Not sure what you mean by focusing the ring light?

Can you post an image of the rig you are using ?

ehor
28-05-2009, 9:49am
Make a diffuser perhaps?

trigger
28-05-2009, 10:25am
Not sure how you set it up but the LEDs emit pretty a narrow band of light and at very narrow colour range which the camera might not be able to see. They also emit UV which might throw the AF off?

The IR or near IR light on my speed lights let me focus in complete darkness with no problems.

ricktas
28-05-2009, 11:16am
what lens are you using, you might be trying to focus closer than the minimum focus distance of the lens.

purephotos
28-05-2009, 3:34pm
I will post a picture of the rig soon. It's not a focusing problem, I'm using a 35-70mm f2.8 nikkor lens with macro and i can usually get a lot closer, it's just the light isn't being cast inwards enough.

-R

Viper
28-05-2009, 5:40pm
Possibly use some cardboard angled inwards around the ring light with silver foil on the inside to "push" some light towards the subject. Without seeing the ring light setup not sure if this might help.