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Focus light necessary for macro?

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Adrian Gresores
in Lights, Strobes, and Lighting Technique

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Like Tim said, other than dawn, dusk and night dives, I never needed a focus light with D500 and 60mm macro, but with 105mm on the D500 or Z8, a focus light is useful far more often, as I recently found out. There is a wide range of sizes, features and power available and ulcs has some lightweight mounts that fit almost anything.

Not what I use, but I just threw this 120g thing together together to illustrate how small one can go:

20260131_161946.jpgOrcatorch D560 700 lumen 3.5" light with 14500 battery on a ULCS ball mount.

To paraphrase a credit card commercial, What's in your housing cold shoe?
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