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In the past shooting close-up images was in the area of true professionals. It required expensive equipment and large SLR photo cameras with special lenses capable of taking photos in true 1:1 ratio. In simple words it means that the object you are photographing appears in the same size in camera's sensor as in real life. Well, contrary to what we might think today with all those cheap compact and digital SLR photo cameras to take truly astonishing photo of amazing micro world it still requires not so cheap lenses and matching specially designed flashes. Nikon P500 in 'action' However, new digital photo world in its 'blooming' era in previous decade brought something else to the scene. Something equally important and with quality far beyond we used to in previous 'analog' world. Actually, two new things are introduced in the business - computerization of the camera and large worldwide competition between leading manufacturers. First one brought simp...

3D is not the new technology, the old red-blue anaglyph technology is with us for many years and currently being replaced by new not-so-head-blowing technology in polarized lighting, glasses free parallax barrier and lenticular displays. I am not a big fan of 3d movies, simply because my eyes and head requires day(s) to recover after it, but 3D photos are very much usefull and I enjoyed them very much in everyday surfing the net (I always have a pair of glasses, usually came with some kids magazines). NASA's  recent Mars robotic exploration has tons of galleries of 3D images that really help understanding the scenery much better. Years ago I learned to create these photos and first instruction I found was at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory:  https://mars.nasa.gov/mars3d/3DImages.cfm 3D photo created from two images, angled with a couple of centimeters The only downside is you have to take two images very quickly, especially when taking photos of children or any movi...