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Tabletop-Spielerei mit Hotel-Zündhölzern.
Es ist wie im echten Leben. Die Masse beobachtet und wartet ab, einer tut sich hervor und welche ducken sich ab.
Looking at some incredible macro images on Flickr fired me up to have a go at tabletop macro at magnifications far greater than 1:1.
Not sure how I would get on, so the budget was set at £10 and make use of whatever I had around.
Starter was the base and that is from my old Phillips PCS2000 enlarger. I made a spacer and bolt to attach the macro slide.
For the subject table I was looking for movement in 3 orientations, so used the compound table from my bench drill. To save the compound table scratching the enlarger base it is mounted on 4 rubber feet I bought in Maplins. Bolted to that is a vertical rising table to sit the subject on. This is the focus stage from my enlarger topped of with a bit of aluminium held in place by electrical tape.
The flexible flash bracket is a gooseneck microphone stand also from Maplins. As bought this was not stiff enough to support the flashgun so I inserted 5 lengths of fencing wire to stiffen it up. This is topped off with a ball head taken from an old Jessops mini tabletop tripod.
In addition to all that I had to do a mod to my 1980's Panagor Auto bellows. In its native form this is not stiff enough to resist vibrations at high magnifications. So the front standard was drilled and tapped and the bellows attatched to a length of aluminium. The rear standard has the main fixing point and a groove was cut in the ally base to allow the front standard a degree of front rear movement before it is locked down. This is visible in view2.
In the setup shown the extension is 230mm. This is made up by the bellows, and Nikon PK12, 13 and PN11 extension tubes. A teleconverter can be added to the camera for even greater magnification, and that was the setup I used to take the 'Ballpen Tip' in my photostream.
I had my commercial printer print a 11 x 17 pullup banner (over kill) and use this as a backdrop. Yes, it is an urban Paris backdrop.
While waiting for our delicious afternoon tea at Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons this shiny marble tabletop made a handy perch for a reflection using the Canon G1X 'HDR filter'. It did OK in the circumstances - straight into the sun!
Our room (called Cameo) had views across the gardens here at the back of the hotel and also at the front over part of the village.
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Table top setup. The room is lit by sunny daylight, but camera and flash are adjusted to block this out (flash to max power, camera to t=1/100 s). Otherwise the two color temperatures would mix. Another nice advantage of using a strobe light instead of daylight: One can easily choose ISO 100 and still shoot without tripod.
A vintage tabletop crucifix with a wooden corpus and brass fittings.
For sale by an antique dealer in the Philippines.
Red filter study on Fomapan 100.
This photograph was taken with this camera and lens: www.flickr.com/photos/picsfromthebirdcage/44762210032/in/...
Taken using a Thornton Pickard Junior Special Reflex camera in week 365 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
www.flickr.com/photos/tony_kemplen/collections/72157623113584240
This camera dates from the 1920s, and the focal plane shutter no longer works. I wedged the shutter open and took photos in artificial light, allowing exposures of several seconds, using a lens cap as a shutter.
The film is Rollei Retro 80S black and white negative film, developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 14 minutes at 20 degrees.