Thanks Jostein ;) You explained the setup from the video perfectly. It's all manual (his flash looks like an old vivitar). The man is a walking tripod and his eyesight must be above average because his lens is stopped down manually to at least f11 and the tubes also reduce the effective aperture. Without flash it's impossible. Most amazing is he stacked photo's from live insects all without a tripod.
I'm using a ringflash and normal macro lens. Sometimes I stack a Raynox 250 on the F100 macro for above 1:1. If you don't have a ringflash any PTTL flash in wireless mode with a diffusor is sometimes even better (and cheaper). Toine On 3 March 2011 22:02, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:02 PM, AlunFoto wrote: > >> The main challenge with working a setup like his, is that you're on >> full manual. There's no aperture coupling, so you have to stop down >> the lens manually. Also, there's no P-TTL. You need to set the flash >> for manual, and figure out the right combination of flash output and >> aperture for yourself. Add a diffuser like his, and you are basically >> down to trial and error to get it right. >> >> But once you do, you can use the same setup every time, and >> concentrate on your motifs. Which is good because as as the guy says, >> it requires a lot of patience. :-) > > Thanks for the explanation, Jostein. That would force pretty intense learning > about photography, especially exposure and focus. > > Let me see if I understand some of what you say [I suspect I don't entirely]: > Absence of aperture coupling is equivalent to using an M lens? "No P-TTL" > means there's no metering? [My guess is that's not right.] > > I have avoided the use of flash so far, so all that's a complete mystery to > me. Would use of flash in this kind of photography be necessary? > >> And do take a look at Toine's webpages. He's pretty darn good. :-) >> http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/component/content/article/104-bugs > > Beautiful site. Amazing range of subjects, yet with commonality of style > across most of them. The 360˚ panoramas are amazing. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
