Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-19 Thread AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne
Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder what the Sigma EX 28mm f1.8 would do reversed on the front of that F100? It has a 77mm filter size. H. This actually works: http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/display/6476072 :-) One issue you might run into with the 28mm is vignetting,

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-19 Thread mike wilson
On 19/07/2012 09:34, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne wrote: Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder what the Sigma EX 28mm f1.8 would do reversed on the front of that F100? It has a 77mm filter size. H. This actually works: http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/display/6476072 Well

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-19 Thread Jan van Wijk
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:01:16 -0500 Darren Addy wrote: It appears that male to male ring will find what I'm looking for on that infernal auction site, but in the process I'm afraid that Google's profile of me just changed in a rather inaccurate way. You may also add the word macro or coupling to

RE: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-19 Thread Bob W
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:01:16 -0500 Darren Addy wrote: It appears that male to male ring will find what I'm looking for on that infernal auction site, but in the process I'm afraid that Google's profile of me just changed in a rather inaccurate way. You may also add the word macro or

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-19 Thread Mark C
On 7/18/2012 3:23 AM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne wrote: But I digress... My point is that experiments are required to find optics that fit well together for stacking. One can be very positively surprised with results from what one already has lying around! That's a very striking shot and

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-19 Thread Mark C
On 7/19/2012 8:43 AM, Jan van Wijk wrote: I am not even sure where I got the two rings I own, probably by rumaging through close-out sales of shops going out of business ... I got mine at a local camera store - they had them loose in a drawer for a couple bucks each. Bought 10 rings to cover

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-19 Thread Charles Robinson
On Jul 18, 2012, at 18:01, Darren Addy wrote: Thanks for the quick reply Jostein. It appears that male to male ring will find what I'm looking for on that infernal auction site, but in the process I'm afraid that Google's profile of me just changed in a rather inaccurate way. You may also

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-18 Thread AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne
Mark's macro work has been and is good inspiration. But you make it sound as if I bought equipment for the sake of besting him... :-) I think it was around 2006 I started to play with the 645 optics for macro. IIRC, Mike Wilson has a picture of me applying gaffertape to couple two lenses

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-18 Thread Boris Liberman
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:23 AM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Mark's macro work has been and is good inspiration. But you make it sound as if I bought equipment for the sake of besting him... :-) I don't see anything wrong with a good competition between two friends that

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-18 Thread Darren Addy
That's a terrific shot, Jostein. I appreciate your sharing it as well as your set-up (and opinions/reasonings). Also, I agree that John Shaw's Close-ups in Nature is an excellent, excellent book. Dumb question. What are the connector rings called that allow you to thread a reversed lens into the

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-18 Thread AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne
That's actually a very _good_ question... I've seen many different descriptions. Reversal ring, reversing ring, reverse adapter, male-male stepring, reverse coupling ring... It's a complete mess. Most of the time, the thing people have in mind is an adapter with a filter thread on one side and

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-18 Thread Darren Addy
Thanks for the quick reply Jostein. It appears that male to male ring will find what I'm looking for on that infernal auction site, but in the process I'm afraid that Google's profile of me just changed in a rather inaccurate way. You may also add the word macro or coupling to your search. I just

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-17 Thread Bruce Walker
Very impressive, Jostein. I like that a lot. On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: There was some exchange on the list about macro photography and extension a few days ago. Personally I prefer to use stacked lenses for magnification beyond 1X. Here's one I

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-17 Thread Boris Liberman
Technique aside, this is marvelous photograph, Jostein. Although you seem to have affinity to (for?) this kind of macro photography at least since 2006 when as I remember you were gearing up towards competing ;-) with Mark Cassino on his snowflake photography. On 7/15/2012 7:03 PM, Jostein

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-16 Thread Bulent Celasun
You are within stereomicroscope territory! Lovely image with perfect detail, by the way... Bulent - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-16 Thread David J Brooks
Excellent Dave On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: The image is severely cropped, but the motif gives you an idea of the possibilities in the field with this kind of setup. Image only: http://turl.no/kz3 In blog:

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-16 Thread Mark C
That's excellent - your setup worked well and you captured a great moment. Mark On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: There was some exchange on the list about macro photography and extension a few days ago. Personally I prefer to use stacked lenses for

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-16 Thread Paul Stenquist
Super shot, Jostein. Paul On Jul 16, 2012, at 8:52 PM, Mark C wrote: That's excellent - your setup worked well and you captured a great moment. Mark On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: There was some exchange on the list about macro photography and

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-16 Thread knarftheria...@gmail.com
Yeah, that's an amazing photo, Jostein. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com Sent: July 16, 2012 7/16/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-16 Thread Christine Aguila
What Mark said. Amazing detail. Cheers, Christine On Jul 16, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote: That's excellent - your setup worked well and you captured a great moment. Mark On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: There was some

PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-15 Thread Jostein Øksne
There was some exchange on the list about macro photography and extension a few days ago. Personally I prefer to use stacked lenses for magnification beyond 1X. Here's one I took today, using the 645D, and a 150mm lens stacked with a reversed 75mm. The magnification of this combo is 2X. That's

Re: PESO - Feeding kiss (an alternative to extension for macro)

2012-07-15 Thread Steven Desjardins
I really like this, but I do tend toward insect macros. On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: There was some exchange on the list about macro photography and extension a few days ago. Personally I prefer to use stacked lenses for magnification beyond 1X.