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Always looking to learn something new, today I decided to dabble with macro photography. On my last visit to Hong Kong I bought a cheap macro/wide-angle lens that screws on to the lens of my NEX-6 kit lens. The quality is quite bad though, especially in wide-angle mode - there is a lot of chromatic aberration and blur towards the outside. It is not too bad though in macro photography mode.
I went to the garage to get an old hard drive, put it on the desk, and illuminated it with a strong LED desk light. I used a tripod to stabilize the camera. I moved the hard drive around on the table to center the object of interest in front of the lens.
Macro photography has a very shallow depth of field, so I selected 100 ISO and aperture 10, and manually focused to the desired object. Sony's focus peaking really helps - you see yellow lines wherever the focus is.
I processed two RAW exposures into a balanced HDR photo to enhance the micro-contrast. I applied just little HDR compression because too much would make the bokeh look unnatural. After that I applied strong vignetting to draw the eyes to the center. I like the result, with the bokeh looking like colorful diamonds.
HDR, 2 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC3827_8_hdr2bal1c
Nikon F2 7263145 SLR body
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Nikon DP-1 590410 metering viewfinder
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Nikon Nikkor 50mm 1:1.4 4538850
PA202959 Anx2 1200h Q90 0.5k-2k
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I picked up my 3rd 5D2 after flip flopping between full frame and 1.6 crop. I decided I needed both.
It went like this 40D to 5D2 ( thought all my lenses were too zoomed back), back to a 40D (then went OMG 5D2 quality is 10 times better), back to 5D2(was happy until the 7D came out),to the 7D. Then for the last year I said I need both and finally picked up the 5D2 on the B&H sale. I'll have my 7D for sports and macro and the 5D2 for full framey shots. I got some stuff lined up so it should be paid off in no time.
Strobist
ST-E2 and 580EXII bounced off the ceiling.
Product shot of a Canon TL 35mm for cp404 lighting demo. 2 Alien bees to light the scene and 1 1x24 fill card. #w8deypix #FlannelFridayProductions
The END is near :)
The end of 2010 is near.
Time to balance:
I have to thank all of you for your visits, your comments, your faves and your invitations: THANK YOU !!!
I wish you a wonderful 2011, a lot of joy, peace, love, creativity and health.
May God bless you !
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Praktica LTL 3 35mm SLR camera shutter B,1-1000 speed with TTL metering, lens mount M42 Pentacon auto f1.8/50mm lens, Made in Germany by Pentacon c1975-1978
cámara análoga zenit 11, incluye correa y armatoste de cuero. velocidad bulb hasta 1/500
lentes helios 44mm
diafragma f/2 a f/16, utiliza película 35mm
45mil
This camera + 3-lens kit will run you about $1350 in the used market right now and is what I recommend for most people who ask me these days:
-Olympus OM-D E-M5
-Panasonic 14mm f/2.5
-Olympus 25mm f/1.8
-Olympus 45mm f/1.8
Just the right combination of size, weight, and functionality.
One of our restaurant customers gifted this camera to me a couple of years ago along with 3 good lenses and a small flash unit, hard cases included. Sometime I'll set it up for a beauty shoot. He purchased the whole kit new in SE Asia in about 1967.
Explored
An image of some telephone boxes very close to where we were staying while on our trip to London. I have used selective colouring on this and it is also a HDR image.
24/02/2011
Gotta love new toys/tools...
My Fujifilm X100T arrived this weekend, time for some camera porn.
Fujifilm X-T1 & ZEISS Touit 50mm/F2.8 Macro
The fixed lens is from a Branette camera, vintage 1950's.
The lens was dismounted from the body of the camera quite easily, via a retaining ring, screwed onto the rear of the lens.
The shutter was disabled, but the aperture was maintained.
After many different attempts at keeping the lens in its otherwise normal physical condition, it was decided the any rear pins and protrusions, would be cut away- Dremel tool. This allowed for the rear of the lens to be relatively flat, but still maintain for the freedom of the aperture control to be used.
The rear of the lens has a M25 thread. Many various configurations came and went to get this to mount to an M42 adapter. it was finally settled to order an M25 to M42 adapter ring.
Mounting this to a M42 to NEX adapter, it would not focus to infinity.
Mounting to a 17-33mm helicoid solved the issue.
This can be seen here.
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I will be using this camera in week 324 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
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