Quoting Bruce Walker <[email protected]>:
The more shots I see from the Q the more impressed I am. An excellent
gallery, Brian. That closeup lens is very intriguing. The five stacked
step-up rings must have made a good lens hood. :-)
Yes - but no longer. A 40.5-58 mm step-up ring arrived in the post
this morning. :-)>
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Brian Walters
<[email protected]> 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'.
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