Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire
One of the many pens on my (and everybody else's) desk, adorned with the gold-coloured metal single pen holder you've already seen for our June 2022 theme "Flexible" (you can find the photo in the first comment). The pen is a very slim Japanese ballpoint pen (OHTO Slim Line) with a super thin tip. I've also taken a few shots of a lead pencil (that had lint on the tip, so I focused on the lint, of course), and it turned out nice as well, but here I managed to get more of the pen holder's flexible coil into the image, so I chose this image as today's MM participant.
Photographed with the manual Laowa macro lens at 2x magnification. Focusing at maximum magnification was a little tricky because since I can't turn the focus ring anymore (I could, of course, but I'd lose maximum magnification) neither magnification mode nor focus peaking will be activated on the display. But if I remember correctly, I can re-assign one of the buttons to activate magnification mode and focus peaking, and this is the next task because both are essential for getting in focus what is supposed to be in focus. Several times I was absolutely sure the pens' tips were sharp, but the focus was ever so slightly off, so in the end I used a loupe to control the tips' sharpness on the display. I think I also need new glasses ;)
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice autumn/spring week ahead!
Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire
One of the many pens on my (and everybody else's) desk, adorned with the gold-coloured metal single pen holder you've already seen for our June 2022 theme "Flexible" (you can find the photo in the first comment). The pen is a very slim Japanese ballpoint pen (OHTO Slim Line) with a super thin tip. I've also taken a few shots of a lead pencil (that had lint on the tip, so I focused on the lint, of course), and it turned out nice as well, but here I managed to get more of the pen holder's flexible coil into the image, so I chose this image as today's MM participant.
Photographed with the manual Laowa macro lens at 2x magnification. Focusing at maximum magnification was a little tricky because since I can't turn the focus ring anymore (I could, of course, but I'd lose maximum magnification) neither magnification mode nor focus peaking will be activated on the display. But if I remember correctly, I can re-assign one of the buttons to activate magnification mode and focus peaking, and this is the next task because both are essential for getting in focus what is supposed to be in focus. Several times I was absolutely sure the pens' tips were sharp, but the focus was ever so slightly off, so in the end I used a loupe to control the tips' sharpness on the display. I think I also need new glasses ;)
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice autumn/spring week ahead!