Wow! Amazing photos of an unusual plant. You're making me want a Q. Regaards, Bob S.
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Brian Walters <apathy...@lyons-ryan.org> wrote: > G'day all > > Looking at Mark's post about his macro tests with the Q made me realise that > I needed to get off my backside and take some photos with my Q. > > My needs are more modest than Mark's - I'm more into close-up than true > macro - so, rummaging around in my bits and pieces drawer I came across a > Canon Close-Up Lens 450. I'm not sure where it came from but may have been > attached to an old Canonflex SLR I bought some years ago (that's certainly > the only Canon I've ever owned). > > The close up lens is 58mm diameter and fortunately I had enough step -up > rings between 40.5mm and 58mm to be able to mount it on the front of the 06 > zoom (5 step-up rings in total). > > Here's a very quick experiment using my favourite plant as a subject. > > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/PentaxQ/pentaxQ.html > > The first two photos are without the close up lens attached, just to see how > the 06 zoom preformed on its own. The third photo is with the close up lens > attached and as close as I could get to the plant while still being able to > autofocus. > > Unfortunately, I was so concentrated on focusing distance that I totally > forgot about depth of field, so these are all with the lens pretty much wide > open. But, all told, I'm pretty happy with the result and the close up lens > will become part of my 'Q Kit'. > > > -- > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
