You know that you just might have a problem when....
Oct 31, 2012 13:38:43 #
Watering your plants becomes a photographic event...
Droplets on a peace lilly.
Droplets on a peace lilly.
Oct 31, 2012 14:16:59 #
Oct 31, 2012 15:28:13 #
And then the spouse gives you that look and you catch her googling mental health facilities....
Oct 31, 2012 16:08:40 #
Another one from today.... when I start posting ants and watered plants that means that finding bugs is becoming difficult... I was checking out the Ice Cream diffuser and a full set of extension tubes with a 28mm reversed lens.... hits and misses very hard to focus at f/11 as the longer tubes eats up the light, and then that big old diffuser blocks the sunlight. It does produce a softer image with less refraction problems. Refraction on the reversed lens on tubes is still a problem but not as bad with this diffuser.
Oct 31, 2012 16:25:22 #
If this is a 2-mm long ant, your image, as posted, equals about a 10:1 magnification (10x life-size).
Oct 31, 2012 16:36:36 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Now you made me go and shoot a millimeter scale.. the lens is shooting at about 4x, about 5.5-millimeters on a 22-mm sensor. Image looks a little soft to me... Certainly not as good as Efram's MP-E... I am surprised that we did not see more from him, he got that new lens and told us about it only to disappear.If this is a 2-mm long ant, your images, as posted, equals about a 10:1 magnification (10x life-size).
Oct 31, 2012 17:15:12 #
Blurryeyed wrote:
That ant is not 5-mm long. A 2-mm ant nearly filling a 22-mm FoV is about 10:1 mag (10x life-size).Now you made me go and shoot a millimeter scale.. the lens is shooting at about 4x, about 5.5-millimeters on a 22-mm sensor. Image looks a little soft to me... Certainly not as good as Efram's MP-E... I am surprised that we did not see more from him, he got that new lens and told us about it only to disappear.
Oct 31, 2012 17:18:43 #
Very cool. Almost transparent. I gotta try this reverse lens approach
Oct 31, 2012 18:08:39 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
The ant was definitely one of the smaller variety and definitely did not seem to me to be anywhere near 5mm in length, but of course I never consider legs and antennae when considering the length of a bug.... here is the photo as it came off the camera uncropped.That ant is not 5-mm long. A 2-mm ant nearly filling a 22-mm FoV is about 10:1 mag (10x life-size).
Oct 31, 2012 18:35:03 #
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Nov 1, 2012 06:45:52 #
I once caught myself photographing icicles in the middle of the night with a flash. Great shots, I like both water drops and the ant.
Nov 1, 2012 07:21:16 #
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Nov 1, 2012 07:57:12 #
Cross hatch in an Ants eye, Wow now your talking. Nice Capture.
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