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Is anyone else planning to get a Venus KX-800? The MT-24EX looked discouragingly expensive to me, and I don't think I would bother with ETTL anyway.
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Bubbacub posted:Is anyone else planning to get a Venus KX-800? The MT-24EX looked discouragingly expensive to me, and I don't think I would bother with ETTL anyway. Yeah, it looks like it would be amazing - although I may need to save some pennies before I spring for one.
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After so many critters and plants here's something different: Screw It! by Markus Glanzer on 500px That's the actual photo and not a crop.
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Some sort of cricket or grasshopper? Anyone have any ideas, was found on central Vancouver Island.
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^^ Great shot! Looks like a Slender Meadow Katydid.
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I attended a bug macro workshop in Belize recently. I put up a flickr album of shots, but here are a few highlights: Over and Under  Turtle Ant Through the glass Hooded mantis Crysalis Wandering StarIf you have the chance to go to a "BugShot" workshop I highly recommend it.
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Holy gently caress, those are amazing.  I'm jealous you got to go to Belize. I'm planning to go to the domestic Bugshot next year.
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Uh, is it scary to get this close to a wandering spider? I just got a really good deal on a used MP-E 65. 
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Bubbacub posted:Uh, is it scary to get this close to a wandering spider? I was too ignorant to be afraid. The guy I was with shoots all the time in the forest at night and he got right up to it to shoot, so I did the same. I was behind a big camera, with a large diffuser on the front like a big white shield. Graniteman fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Aug 20, 2015 |
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Graniteman posted:I attended a bug macro workshop in Belize recently. I put up a flickr album of shots, but here are a few highlights: These are great!
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babby's first macro shots Formica ant by Jason the Hutt, on Flickr Leaf beetle by Jason the Hutt, on Flickr
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Have you used the MP-E 65 much before? It can be a little tricky to get used to at the start. Good first shots though 
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Thanks! I've never used one before, but the experience of pointing the lens and not knowing what the hell I'm looking at is pretty similar to using a 600mm telephoto on birds. Nailing focus is totally different though, it takes a lot of concentration to slowly rock back and forth and press the shutter when it looks about right. It's a fun lens, I can't wait to take it out again. Any ideas for diffusing the heads on a KX-800?
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I had no idea harvestmen looked so armored and crablike up close. Yellow Sac Spider by Jason the Hutt, on Flickr Harvestman by Jason the Hutt, on Flickr
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Got a new lens, Olympus 60mm. So far I love it! Still need to practice more though, got to get a handle of this macro depth of field and focus thing...  P1060701.jpg  P1060692.jpg  P1060681.jpg  P1060675.jpg
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I'm having a ton of fun with the KX-800. I was playing around with putting one head above the subject, and one underneath the leaf it was sitting on. I think the effect was a little garish and poorly-executed here, but it's something I want to play around with some more.  Ants guarding aphids by Jason the Hutt, on Flickr Gray Tree Frog by Jason the Hutt, on Flickr
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This shot turned out a little better. Camponotus major worker by Jason the Hutt, on Flickr
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A new diffuser rig: Field equipment August 2015 MT-24EX flash with a diffuser cone on the end. The cone is made from a ceiling light panel diffuser which I cut into the cone shape and attached to the camera with a rubber band. There is a big step-up ring on the end of the lens to give the rubber band something to grip. The flash heads are on flexible arms which let me position them far enough back from the cone to get rid of hot spots on the cone. I wish the flex arms were a bit more rigid though. They tend to flop around. Also, there is a bicycle light attached to the lens with a head lamp band. This is to serve as a powerful modeling light for shooting at night. The cable you see is running to a battery (clipped to my belt) for the bike light. The lens here is a 100mm macro with a raynox DCR-150 close up filter. I also have a much smaller cone I use for a MP-E 65 lens. That is a much more compact setup. Example shots.  Bee on yarrow  Ant in the moss In this last shot the flash heads flopped closer to the cone, giving less diffusion and more directional light. Still very nicely diffused, but I'd rather have a single highlight than two regions.  20150910-HA4A0715.jpg
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^^ Looks like a nice rig, the shot of the ant is particularly awesome. babby's first focus stack here:  Bellura by Jason the Hutt, on FlickrIt's not perfect, but I'm still happy with the results since it was handheld on a live insect.
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but it seems pretty close. I'm looking to buy a digital microscope so I can take photos of...well extremely small poo poo (my main interest is sand) and I was hoping for any insight/recommendations you guys have? I don't mind spending over $100, I'm more interested in picture quality, resolution, and zoom, and the ability to hook it to a computer.
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I'm selling the MT-24EX and custom diffusers that I use for my macro stuff if anyone is interested. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3125105&pagenumber=231&perpage=40#post453287936
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Bismuth posted:I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but it seems pretty close. I'm looking to buy a digital microscope so I can take photos of...well extremely small poo poo (my main interest is sand) and I was hoping for any insight/recommendations you guys have? I don't mind spending over $100, It really depends on your expectations about magnification - stereo scopes generally don't go much above 4x magnification (often advertised as "40x" because they factor in the 10x eyepieces). That's fine for larger specimens, but you may find that limiting, and zoom scopes have a reputation for trading convenience for image quality - but for some applications critical imaging performance is a secondary consideration. You'd probably end up using an eyepiece camera, which vary in quality from OK to awful. An inexpensive compound microscope could also work, assuming that the objectives have enough working distance for lighting (transmitted light probably isn't ideal for your choice of subject). Again, you could use an eyepiece camera, or you could adapt a mirrorless or SLR cam instead. There are a number of people who custom fabricate adapters for this purpose (I have a couple of custom-made adapters from rafcamera.com). Bismuth posted:I'm more interested in picture quality, resolution, and zoom, and the ability to hook it to a computer. Can you point me at some examples of the type/quality of images you'd like to obtain? That might help narrow down the available options.
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Bismuth posted:I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but it seems pretty close. I'm looking to buy a digital microscope so I can take photos of...well extremely small poo poo (my main interest is sand) and I was hoping for any insight/recommendations you guys have? I don't mind spending over $100, I'm more interested in picture quality, resolution, and zoom, and the ability to hook it to a computer. One other quick note: Microscopes can be "traditional" or "inverted." Traditional scopes have the light source below the stage and the objective lens above it. Inverted scopes have the light source above the stage and the objective lens below it. But both are still transmission style scopes.
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Nomenclature posted:But for sand, which is chunks of light-absorbing or reflecting minerals, you will probably want your light source on the same side as the lens. To add to this post, stereomicroscopes (dissecting microscopes) are used primarily to observe 3D subjects using reflected light. On the other hand, compound microscopes shine light through a very thin or partially translucent subject - so lighting your sand would require the addition of a second light source. On a conventional monocular or binocular compound microscope, only the 4x and maybe the 10x objectives will have enough working distance (ie. the distance between the front of the objective and the points on-subject that are in focus) for you effectively light your subject from the same side. Higher magnification objectives often have working distances in the sub-millimeter range - for instance, my 40x objective has a WD of 0.65mm. Microscope objectives with higher magnifications and suitably long working distances exist (like these), but their cost puts them firmly in the territory of labs or industrial outfits. Dia de Pikachutos fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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I've mostly used dissecting microscopes, They're probably more what I want, to get pictures like they have here http://sandgrains.com/sand-grains-gallery.html I would like to get surface texture rather than just the color and shape. I'm certainly not looking at anything as small as individual cells, so I don't think I'd need or want something with a zoom to that level. I was looking at things like this http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-Han...12X39N3N4Q7CCSQ but I really don't know much about brands or if that's even better than getting something to take a photo directly through the lens of a normal stereo microscope.
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Bismuth posted:I've mostly used dissecting microscopes, They're probably more what I want, to get pictures like they have here http://sandgrains.com/sand-grains-gallery.html I would like to get surface texture rather than just the color and shape. I'm certainly not looking at anything as small as individual cells, so I don't think I'd need or want something with a zoom to that level. I was looking at things like this http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-Han...12X39N3N4Q7CCSQ but I really don't know much about brands or if that's even better than getting something to take a photo directly through the lens of a normal stereo microscope. You can get a digital microscope that goes up to 500x on ebay for $15. The resolution is only 600x480, the stand is pretty bad, and using the highest zoom can be difficult, but it's incredibly cheap. It works exactly like a webcam. Here's what sand from the backyard looks like under mine:  
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The Hornet in the first 3 killed that Cicada and started dragging it along the path. It was metal as gently caress.  Australian Hornet by ASB, on Flickr Australian Hornet by ASB, on Flickr Australian Hornet by ASB, on Flickr Huntsman Spider by ASB, on Flickr
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Testing the focus bracketing on my em5ii. Works pretty well.  2015-12-12 20-20-24 (B,Radius8,Smoothing4) by Douglas Tiedt, on Flickr
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Bubbacub posted:^^ Great shot! Looks like a Slender Meadow Katydid. nope, a Meconema sp. male, with the bow-like claspers on the rear end end
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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I got a new microscope and made a big panorama of a rock with it.
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First macro in almost 2 years. Feels Good Man. D750+Nikkor AI-s 55mm Micro+Raynox DCR-250. Furrow spider (Larinioides cornutus)
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