Nice article - interesting to see the various techniques that people use!
My setup is cobbled together from more common items than he is using.
Here's a shot of it from 2007 - nothing has changed except for upgrades
to the camera and lens:
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/first_snow_crystals_winter_2007_08
The lens at the end of the bellows is a reverse mounted 50mm. These days
I use a DFA 50mm macro on the hope that the coatings are better for
reducing flare. But I've gotten good results with a wide variety of 50mm
lenses. The M50 f1.7 in particular was very good.
Aside from the bellows I have about 200mm in tubes that I can add to
push the magnification up to 10x or so. I don't often go that high,
simply because such tiny crystals are usually not too interesting.
I started using that setup in 2000, I think, after a few years of using
a system that tried to light the crystal from above instead of below. I
use 1/4th inch thick glass to slow the warming of the crystal - I used
microscope slides for a while but found the thicker glass to work better.
Mark
On 1/24/2015 1:47 PM, Ken Waller wrote:
I immediately thought of Mark C. when I read this article, although
from what I know of his process it is a simpler way of capturing
snowflakes.
http://photo.net/learn/nature/photographing-snowflakes/
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
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