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Post #81by ANDREA » 09.07.2007, 10:57

LordFerret wrote: .....With older fully manual 35mm SLR's, you could remove the lens and reverse it (turn it around backward)... then holding it by hand up against the body of the camera, you'd have a functional macro lens. I'd resorted to such tactics many a time. You just need to take a close-in light reading first, and pre-set your aperature (always bracket shots).

I agree with LordFerret, and I can add that the best lenses for such a system are the wide-angle ones.
It's sufficiently easy to find in the web reversing rings, i.e. with male bayonet on one side and the right male screw on the other side.
Results are very good, expecially if you don't need (as 99,9% of photographers!) an expecially relevant optical sharpness, for very big enlargments. :wink:
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Post #82by LordFerret » 10.07.2007, 06:14

:D

The macro lens I have is the 55mm f2.8-f32 PK-3 (has an extension ring)... the link below has a picture of it without the extension, top image on the right.
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/micronikkor/55mmmicro.htm
As is mentioned, the lens itself yields a 1:2 ratio on the negative, which is boosted to 1:1 with the PK-3 extender. It's a very sharp lens.

And it's funny you mention reversal rings, as another lens I own is the 24mm (rectilinear) wideangle. With a reversal ring (BR-2) and mounted on a bellows, it will yield a 10:1 ratio on the negative! I specifically bought the lens for this purpose, but I never got around to getting the reversal ring or bellows. :lol: Nikon makes a very nice precision twin-rail bellows.

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Post #83by Cham » 11.07.2007, 03:43

Something I've found on another forum :

Neil Armstrong right after his first walks on the moon, back in the lunar module :
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Eugene Cernan, with his space suit full of lunar dust :
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Harrison Schmitt sitting at the lunar module window :
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Post #84by LordFerret » 11.07.2007, 06:16

Nice find. :D I'd seen the top one before, a long time ago. I also remember reading of how the astronauts were all affected by the moon dust on their return voyage... sneezing and such.

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Post #85by ElChristou » 11.07.2007, 11:39

Cham wrote:Something I've found on another forum :...


I particularly like the Cernan photo, seems to be a shot from a very very good SF movie! (details are SO realistic! 8O) :wink:
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Post #86by rthorvald » 11.07.2007, 15:21

ElChristou wrote:details are SO realistic!

And, as you know, we are all waiting to see every dust particle, bolt and toothpick in the upcoming Apollo Add-On...

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Post #87by ElChristou » 11.07.2007, 15:55

rthorvald wrote:
ElChristou wrote:details are SO realistic!
And, as you know, we are all waiting to see every dust particle, bolt and toothpick in the upcoming Apollo Add-On...

- rthorvald :-)


Yeah, yeah... :x

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Post #88by LordFerret » 16.07.2007, 06:06

I've finally rounded up and scanned some of my bug and flora shots... please pardon the quality, scanned from old prints with a cheap scanner (the originals look so much better :oops: ). Clicking on an image should open a larger version.

Some bugs...
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Some flora...
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Post #89by ElChristou » 16.07.2007, 12:08

LordFerret wrote:I've finally rounded up and scanned some of my bug and flora shots...


I like the attitude of the bee! Not a common pause! :P
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Post #90by t00fri » 16.07.2007, 12:25

ElChristou wrote:
LordFerret wrote:I've finally rounded up and scanned some of my bug and flora shots...

I like the attitude of the bee! Not a common pause! :P


Perhaps the bee was "murdered" before the shot ;-) to stay put??

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Post #91by ANDREA » 16.07.2007, 13:01

t00fri wrote:
ElChristou wrote:
LordFerret wrote:I've finally rounded up and scanned some of my bug and flora shots...
I like the attitude of the bee! Not a common pause! :P
Perhaps the bee was "murdered" before the shot ;-) to stay put??
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Post #92by t00fri » 16.07.2007, 13:37

Aha, I didn't know about the refrigerator technique. I remember that my father who did macro photography with lots of hi-tech Leica equipment for many decades, already used ring flashes from Novoflex about 30-40 years ago...

I still have his custom-made macro platform with lots of fancy lighting devices in my basement. Perhaps I can take a shot of it these days.

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Post #93by LordFerret » 16.07.2007, 18:22

LOL! Sorry, but none of my subjects were dead nor frozen (I have but one exception!). :lol:

The bee was crawling about collecting pollen quite normally. Here's another shot of him...
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I didn't include this one in the original post because the lighting caused wash-out, and I like the 1st image better. I used a small hand-held Vivitar strobe with nothing more than 2 thin sheets of lens-tissue held in place over the flash element by rubberbands - to diffuse the lighting. No fancy equipment here... as I said, out in the field traveling light, you improvise! :wink: One thing which surprised me, was that the flash didn't disturb the bee one bit. 8O

Here's another flora shot...
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Post #94by Reiko » 04.12.2007, 01:36

Merry Christmas!

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Post #95by BobHegwood » 04.12.2007, 04:10

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Post #96by Hungry4info » 04.12.2007, 15:51

BobHegwood wrote:Humbug.... :evil:

Hahah. :lol:

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Post #97by LordFerret » 05.12.2007, 21:51

Merry Christmas to you too Reiko, that's a nice picture! :D

Happy Holidays to all! :D

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Post #98by AlexChan » 13.12.2007, 14:44

Hello~ I am a guy who live in Hong Kong.
All of you may know Hong Kong is a city.
Light pollution is very serious in here.
And I don't know why every night is cloudy, but no cloud in day time.
Stars are hard to see in urban area.
Sirius, Rigel, Procyon, Betelgeuse, Venus are the stars which can see in sky a little bit easily when winter time.

But 2 nights ago, the sky is suddenly very clear.
Many Stars can see by my eyes!
Including 7 stars of Orion (Saiph is the first time can see in my home after I know how to see Orion), some of stars in Canis Marjor, Lepus also can see!
How amazing! :'(

Here is the photo I took on that night:

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Re: The Post Your Pictures Thread

Post #99by LordFerret » 26.03.2009, 03:20

I think it's time to resurrect this old thread... necropost! :lol:

Spring is here (sort of). A new addition, inside the house for now until summer kicks in. Enjoy. :D

Phalaenopsis (Diana)
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Re: The Post Your Pictures Thread

Post #100by LordFerret » 06.04.2009, 23:45

A few more... signs of spring. Click for full size images (1024x768).

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Periwinkle, Myrtle (Vinca minor)

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Forsythia (X intermedia and suspensa)

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Carpenter bee in its burrow (Proxylocopa)

Enjoy :D
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