Quoting Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com>:
Those are impressive!
What were the exposures?
Thanks, Rick.
The exposures were embarrassing....
All at ISO 400
The top one: f4-5 at 1/500 sec
The second: f4.5 at 1/640 sec
The third: f5 at 1/1250 sec
Given that the camera was tripod mounted, I should have stopped down a
lot more.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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From: Brian Walters <apathy...@lyons-ryan.org>
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Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 8:14 AM
Subject: Some close up tests with the Q
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'.
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