I'm impressed at how shallow your DOF was at those apertures with the small sensor of the Q.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Walters <apathy...@lyons-ryan.org> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Cc: Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 6:11 PM Subject: Re: Some close up tests with the Q 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brian Walters <apathy...@lyons-ryan.org> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Cc: > 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'. > > --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.
