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The bees knee.Thought I should have a look at my macro stuff given the weekend theme.
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| Gilly |
was that dead, or were you brave? 
nice colours and great detail. 
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I'm afraid it was rather dead, of natural causes though, or at least not my doing. | ||
| GREENWIZARD |
sexy
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| hil26 |
anyway, its not eligible for this weekends comp - LOL | ||
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| mr_tone |
wow that is close! what macro lense do you use?! | ||
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That was taken with a Sigma 50mm 1:2.8DG Macro lens with all three extension tubes on, 12, 20 and 36mm. When I am working that close I also put the camera in Exposure Delay Mode which flips the mirror up 1/40th second before the camera takes the picture to cut out extraneous movement. I also wanted a fair depth of field, nothing stupidly tight, hence the choice of f9.
Exposure time: 1/1.60 F-stop: 9.0 ISO speed: 100 |
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| mr_tone |
o right, well i am sooo new to this, what exactly are extension tubes?
sorry for asking a silly question 
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Oh, not a silly question, I didn't know what they were till last year.
Here you go: http://www.warehouseexpress.com/product/default.aspx?sku=1007657 and an explanation: http://mir.com.my/rb/photography/...classics/nikonf2/macro/index1.htm |
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| mr_tone |
o great thank you!
that set looks really good, very tempted for when i get a macro lens |
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| jonH |
u don't need a macro lens to use tubes - they'll reduce the minimum focus distance on any lens, even a telephoto ;) |
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| mr_tone |
o right well the longest zoom ive got is 200 but the focusing distnace is about a metre
might buy these first and see how close i can get thanks for the advice
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