On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:23 AM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark's macro work has been and is good inspiration. > But you make it sound as if I bought equipment for the sake of besting him... > :-)
I don't see anything wrong with a good competition between two friends that is done in spirit of mutual improvement. > I think it was around 2006 I started to play with the 645 optics for macro. > IIRC, Mike Wilson has a picture of me applying gaffertape to couple two > lenses together... But the 645 lenses were otherwise just collecting dust at > the time. Actually, the only person to have run film through my 645n in ten > years is some guy from Israel, also in 2006. :-) I think it was 2004 that I was shooting with your 645N. In 2006 we were all digital already. I do remember that tape that held the two lenses together, though :-). > But I digress... My point is that experiments are required to find optics > that fit well together for stacking. One can be very positively surprised > with results from what one already has lying around! Indeed. > > Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Technique aside, this is marvelous photograph, Jostein. Although you >>seem to have affinity to (for?) this kind of macro photography at least >> >>since 2006 when as I remember you were gearing up towards competing ;-) >> >>with Mark Cassino on his snowflake photography. >> >>On 7/15/2012 7:03 PM, Jostein Øksne wrote: >>> There was some exchange on the list about macro photography and >>> extension a few days ago. Personally I prefer to use stacked lenses >>for >>> magnification beyond 1X. Here's one I took today, using the 645D, and >>a >>> 150mm lens stacked with a reversed 75mm. The magnification of this >>combo >>> is 2X. That's about as much as I can cope with when working handheld. >>> >>> The image is severely cropped, but the motif gives you an idea of the >>> possibilities in the field with this kind of setup. >>> >>> Image only: http://turl.no/kz3 >>> In blog: http://alunfoto.blogspot.no/2012/07/feeding-kiss.html >>> >>> One reason why I prefer stacking over other solutions is that >>exposure >>> automation keeps working. So you don't have to stop down the lens >>manually. >>> >>> Another reason is that P-TTL keeps working. Well, sort of; you have >>to >>> diffuse the flash to avoid overexposure because of the short working >>> distance, but that's okay because you really don't want specular >>> highlights and sharp shadows anyway. >>> >>> And if you're patient, you might actually make AF working. But you >>have >>> to keep the camera very steady. :-) >>> >>> The knack is to find to lenses that go well together. According to >>John >>> Shaw (Book; "closeups in nature"), lenses in the normal range are >>best >>> for reversing, and moderate tele lenses best for attaching to the >>camera. >>> >>> Personally I recommend using a tele lens with IF because it makes >>> working distance more predictable. >>> >>> Jostein >>> >> >> >>-- >>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. > > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > 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. -- Boris -- 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.
