Macro Motion Sickness

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Rink

New member
Well, I didn’t expect this.

Throughout my life I’ve had a lot of problems with motion sickness. After many, many plane trips in my career it got better and it hasn’t been too bad in recent years. Until today.

I got some new close-up lens filters. Slapped the 10x on my 18-55mm zoom and headed out to the yard for some flower macro shots. After trying to focus on very small things with a slight breeze appearing as gale force winds in the frame…bam…that old familiar feeling of headache and nausea. I suppose I was at it about 20 mins or so.

So…maybe I’m more of a landscape photographer than a macro photographer.

Geez.
 
BF Hammer

BF Hammer

Senior Member
I can sympathize. I can sometimes start to get vertigo looking through a viewfinder from a very elevated place. It has happened to me photographing from a fire tower in a park.

I also had to give up on playing any 1st-person-shooter type video games 30 years ago when the CPUs finally became fast enough to show smooth motion. I would get sick after about 20 minutes.
 
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Rink

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At least I’m not alone. Although I hate that anyone else has to deal with it. At times it’s been pretty extreme for me. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

I’ve been looking at macro lenses for a while. Pretty expensive. So I got these very inexpensive close-up filters to tiptoe into macro photography before spending more on a lens. Glad I did that.
 
Clovishound

Clovishound

Senior Member
I've had a lot of trouble throughout my life with motion sickness. Guess what I did for 20 years in the Air Force?

I've had issues on planes, boats and automobiles. Never had an issue with macro work. Good thing, as that is my favorite genre of photography.

Sorry to hear you have that issue. There are lots of different types of photography to center in on. I'm sure you'll find your niche.
 
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