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Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism.
She is recognized as the first known female painter to paint nude self-portraits.
This close-up depicts a tiny detail of a German stamp. 6.5 mm of it, to be precise!
To get that close, I used a good old reverse ring, associated with an ancient 28 mm Minolta manual focus lens, a converter from Minolta MC to Sony E-mount AND my 3 Macro rings (10 + 16 + 21mm).
The blue ruler put on top is not exactly sharp but shows that the whole width of the picture is about 6.5 mm.
Can't get any closer than THAT, even with trying hard! 😄
Those are some runners-up for this week's Macro Monday theme "My Closest".
The pictures have been taken with the same setting as "Paula's eyes", namely a Minolta 28 mm lens mounted reversed on top of a macro ring stack (10 + 16 + 21 mm)...
They are close-ups of various Swiss money bills (50 CHF for that one).
Width is indicated by the blue ruler at the bottom: ~6.5 mm.
Figure is 1.5" x .75"
U.S. 10-cent/dime and shadow of clear plastic ruler included for size (1 inch head to stomach)
This is a 2019 Canadian 1 Dollar coin. It is affectionately known as a Loonie due to the loon portrait on the reverse side.
This is a feather from a Gentoo Penguin when it was molting.
I found this feather at a penguin colony on the Falkland Islands.
The width of the feather is very narrow, only 5 - 6 mm or about 1/4".
Laowa 65mm CA-Dreamer 2X Macro
Each square is 3/16" (4.76 mm) - the total width of the image is less than .94" (23.88 mm).
Scroll saw blades. The smallest division on the rule is half a millimetre
Lens Cimko M series 28mm Macro F2.8 at F2.8
I removed the seed pods from one cluster of Fennel seed, leaving just one tiny pod. It is measured against centimetre ruler showing that it is less than half a centimetre in size. I then photographed it using my Laowa 65mm Macro lens which I managed to focus at a pigeon under 2x, 1.80:1 ratio.
A true 1:1 Macro. Shot using the 105mm lens and a x2 teleconverter. I use to be a Typesetter (Penta and Compugraphic. Quark made it easy :) ). This is my old Pica gauge with a Guitar pick
My Effort for Macro Mondays on the theme of "My Closest" - Looks like about an inch and a half.
Looking at this chap this close shows the limit of painting skills.
Surface Mounted LED's and capacitors on a Printed Circuit Board
Laowa 25mm f2.8 @ f11
5x Magnification
The edge of the ruler at the bottom of the frame is graduated in mm - the width of the subject is about 7mm.
The larger divisions on the measuring tape are 1/16ths of an inch, smaller ones are millimeters.
Taken for Macro Mondays "My Closest"
This image was captured on a Mitutoyo 182-202 Steel Rule, 1/100th showing. This is a 1/64" Thick X 1/2" Wide, Satin Chrome Finish Tempered Stainless Steel ruler. My subject matter are very small, m2 fasteners that you would find typically in eyeglass frames. To illustrate how small these fasteners are, the screw that is to the right of the subject is a 4/20 fastener. Which is typically the same fastener size as your tripod screw for your camera. With 25 years in the cold heading industry, I have manufactured a wide range of products in size and for different applications. However, I've never made anything quite this small.
The eye of the needle is approx 2mm long, with lint from a woven placemat fringe and fine dressmaking cotton. Taken handheld with a Nikon NIKKOR 40mm 1:2.8G and lit from a mobile phone.
Lens at x5 Magnification with extension tubes taking it to about x7 magnification. Each line is ½mm apart. Stacked from 22 images.
dead fern leaf with an imperial steel ruler background showing 32ths of an inch. For all you metric fans out there, 1/32th of an inch is about 0.8 mm. Shot tripod mounted with remote shutter, ringlight LED on flash trigger, 85mm lens with 68mm extension tube.
I like the infection sites prominent on the main stem and the hairs on the undersides of the leaves.
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Macro Clam (species unknown); © 2022, T. P. Hazard -- Taken with a Meike 85mm Macro Lens; 1.5:1, F11 aperture; 10 stacked focus pictures
Shot for Macro Mondays' "My Closest" Challenge
1.5:1 (maximum magnification for the Meike 85mm Macro Lens)
Grid Spacing is 1/8 inch x 1/8 inch, so the clam shell is less than 3/8 of an inch x 3/8 of an inch
10 stacked focused pictures using Focus Stacker
Candy with a twist. My contribution to Macro Mondays theme "Redux 2022".
January 17: My Closest
HMM everyone and Happy Holidays!
This is a focus stack. created using 'Affinity Photo 2', of 30 photos taken with my Nikon Z6ii with a Nikkor 105mm macros lens with a 1.4x teleconverter and two extension tubes (12mm and 24mm). The 12mm shell is laid on silver card with blue card held above for the background colour. A white LED light was used for extra light. At the top of the photo is an out-of-focus tape measure with 1mm black markings.
This was taken for Macro Mondays 'Redux 2022'. I've chosen 'My Closest'.
I think this is about as close as I can get with my equipment. Always the hardest part is the dust on the background and the imperfections in the card it's laid on!
For this week's theme on macro Mondays, my closest shot of a shot. For reference purposes the space between the 10 and the 11 is 1 cm.
Fresh cut organic lemon, fleur de sel, HMM
A little remark for the admins checking the time: the camera time is off by 1 hour (Sommertime), I have pictures from 10 minutes earlier if it's necessary.
Those are some runners-up for this week's Macro Monday theme "My Closest".
The pictures have been taken with the same setting as "Paula's eyes", namely a Minolta 28 mm lens mounted reversed on top of a macro ring stack (10 + 16 + 21 mm)...
They are close-ups of various Swiss money bills (100 CHF for that one).
Width is indicated by the blue ruler at the bottom: ~6.5 mm.
Closeup of metamorphic rock from the Souris River near Wawanesa, Manitoba. Visible are quartz, garnet and mica crystals.
Taken with a Tokina 100 mm lens with reverse mounted 50 mm Canon lens and three extension tubes (12+20+36 mm). Gradations on the ruler are 1mm (3/64th of an inch).
This was taken for MacroMondays "My Closest".
The eye of the needle is approx 2mm long, with lint from a woven placemat fringe and fine dressmaking cotton. Taken handheld with a Nikon NIKKOR 40mm 1:2.8G and lit from a mobile phone.
This isn't really my "My Closest".
Because part of a ruler must be in the macro,
the magnification factor is limited.
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Planned as a contribution for Macro Mondays 17.01.2022, theme "My Closest" - that is, until I read the rules for this week! Sadly, I didn't include a ruler in the picture to indicate the dimensions, so it won't qualify.
The subject is a 3x3mm detail of the leaf of a red oxalis plant, showing the surface as a conglomoration of juicy blisters. The diagonal is one of the veins of the leaf. I had considered introducing a little shading ("dodging and burning-in" to use old dark-room terms), but decided to create a vignette, The colour, brightness and contrast in the circle are close to the original, the edges and corners have been darkened, with increased contrast.
Taken with a Super-Multi-Coated Macro-Takumar 50mm f:1,4 lens mounted on fully extended bellows, a helicoid extension tube (very useful for fine focussing), and a further 100mm extension tube. Exact focussing becomes difficult at this scale (ca. 12:1 on the full-frame sensor of the K-1), even more of a problem is ensuring that there is no camera movement during the exposure. The bellows unit was mounted on a Repro stand - an anvil would have provided more stability!
The leaf was "sandwiched" between sheets of glass and lit from the side with an LED.
PENTAX K-1
Mon pied de Piment Calabrese en pot ne cesse de produire des fruits en cette saison des pluies. #Macro #MacroMondays #MyClosest
Cette huître a voulu se présenter toute seule pour montrer sa petite taille en se plaçant sur une règle graduée de couture. #Macro #MacroMondays #MyClosest
Dehydrated slice of pineapple - if you haven't tried them you should. The centre core (the bumpy bits) is just over 1 cm - this whole image was just about 3 cm wide. Shot using my 300 mm lens and extension tubes.
Macro Mondays 2022 week 3 theme "My Closest"
Happy Macro Mondays folks!
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This macro close up photo of a Super 8 film from the early 70's. The thickness of the film is approx 0.145mm. By comparison, the thickness of a person's hair is normally from 0.04mm to 0.12mm
8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the film strip is eight millimeters wide. It exists in two main versions – the original standard 8 mm film, also known as regular 8 mm, and Super 8. Although both standard 8 mm and Super 8 are 8 mm wide, Super 8 has a larger image area because of its smaller and more widely spaced perforations.
There are also two other varieties of Super 8 – Single 8 mm and Straight-8 – that require different cameras, but produce a final film with the same dimensions.
Standard 8
The standard 8 mm (also known as regular 8) film format was developed by the Eastman Kodak company during the Great Depression and released to the market in 1932 to create a home movie format that was less expensive than 16 mm.
Double 8 spools actually contain a 16 mm film with twice as many perforations along each edge as normal 16 mm film; on its first pass through the camera, the film is exposed only along half of its width. When the first pass is complete, the operator opens the camera and flips and swaps the spools (the design of the spool hole ensures that the operator does this properly) and the same film is subsequently exposed along its other edge, the edge left unexposed on the first pass. After the film is developed, the processor splits it down the middle, resulting in two lengths of 8 mm film, each with a single row of perforations along one edge. Each frame is half the width and half the height of a 16 mm frame, so there are four times the number of frames in a given film area, which is what makes it cost less. Because of the two passes of the film, the format was sometimes called Double 8. The frame size of regular 8 mm is 4.8 mm × 3.5 mm and 1 meter of film contains 264 pictures. Normally Double 8 is filmed at 16 or 18 frames per second.
Common length film spools allowed filming of about 3 to 4 minutes and 30 seconds at 12, 15, 16 and 18 frames per second.
Kodak ceased sales of standard 8 mm film under its own brand in the early 1990s, but continued to manufacture the film, which was sold via independent film stores. Black-and-white 8 mm film is still manufactured in the Czech Republic, and several companies buy bulk quantities of 16 mm film to make regular 8 mm by re-perforating the stock, cutting it into 25 foot (7.6 m) lengths, and collecting it into special standard 8 mm spools, which they then sell. Re-perforation requires special equipment. Some specialists also produce Super 8 mm film from existing 16 mm, or even 35 mm film stock.
Super 8
In 1965, Super-8 film was released and was quickly adopted by many amateur film-makers. It featured a better quality image, and was easier to use mainly due to a cartridge-loading system that did not require reloading and rethreading halfway through. Super 8 was often erroneously criticized, since the film gates in some cheaper Super 8 cameras were plastic, as was the pressure plate built into the cartridge; the standard 8 cameras had a permanent metal film gate that was regarded as more reliable in keeping the film flat and the image in focus. In reality, this was not the case. The plastic pressure plate could be moulded to far tighter tolerances than their metal counterparts could be machined.
To easily differentiate Super 8 film from Standard 8, projector spools for the former had larger spindle holes. Therefore, it was not possible to mount a Super 8 spool on a Standard 8 projector, and vice versa.