Re: PESO: couple of bug macros

2017-03-01 Thread Gonz
I figured it out eventually. The setting for letting the camera work with non-A aperture has to be set to allow focal length setting for shake reduction, otherwise it wont let you. Once I did that, I picked 55mm which was closest to 60 (but not over). Thanks for the comments. The small bug

Re: PESO: couple of bug macros

2017-03-01 Thread Rick Womer
I really like the first image (232)! The sharp and colorful bug, against the blurred white foreground and background, is very effective. In the other shot the bug is too small, IMHO. My primitive understanding of the SR system is that it wants to know the focal length of the lens, Somewhere in

PESO: couple of bug macros

2017-02-21 Thread Gonz
I played around with the Laowa (Venus Optics) 60mm macro I got recently, handheld. The weather here has spring coming at least a month early, all the bugs are out sans mosquitoes (thank goodness). Was gonna take a pic of these plants we have in the garden that are like velvety white and saw this