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They started with excellent macro photos of the original steel punches.
Unexpected Baskerville: The Story of LoveFrom Serif
June 27, 2023
TWO THINGS HERE
(1). This Photo - Taken at Cape Tribulation early this year. With great difficulty for the creature was so tiny and the light was so bad. In my fungi work, I often find very small life forms on and in rotting logs. Most are unknown to me and I would not be surprised if some are not even known. I took many many shots of this creature and only one or two turned out for nearly all were heavily blurred. This one was taken on supermacro at the closest distance, almost touching, and hand held on the log at 3.2 seconds. It was taken with the Canon S3-IS. The creature itself was no more than 4 or 5 mm long.
(2). The S6-IS. For all my contact friends who use one of the Canon S series (S2 S3 S5), I have been anxiously waiting for the Canon S6-IS to be announced as I will be getting one in time. HOWEVER the replacement for the S5-IS has been announced and released by Canon and I did not know on 17 September 2008. The thing is, it has a different name. "SX1-IS" and "SX10-IS". The two models replace the S5-IS.
What is remarkable here is that this new camera has specifications way beyond what was rumoured for the S6. For those of you who were interested in what the S6 was going to be check these references for the new replacements:-
1. Good Introduction
www.post1.net/reviewem/entry/canon_sx1_is_specifications_...
2. New SX Flickr Group
www.flickr.com/groups/canonpowershotsx10is/
3. Details -
www.flickr.com/groups/canonpowershots5is/discuss/72157607...
4. S2 - S5 Discussion
www.flickr.com/groups/canon_s_series/discuss/721576073786...
5. The Manual Look at it (but about 4 or 6 Mb to load) This is a whole manual!! You might find find it interesting.
gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/0300001567/PSSX10IS_CUG_EN.pdf
MY BIGGEST CONCERN was that the new cameras did not have macro or supermacro and nothing I read anywhere on the Internet for hours told me. Then I looked at this Manual and it is page 77 (I think), It certainly has excellent macro and supermacro qualities just like the S series with about the same distances. I intend getting one next year - cant 'afford one now with the financial market and my operation I had to pay for, and maybe another one this year too. :-(
Take care everyone.
They started with excellent macro photos of the original steel punches.
Unexpected Baskerville: The Story of LoveFrom Serif
June 27, 2023
Sample images from a Tamron SP 52BB, an Adapt-all 2 90mm f/2.5 Macro. One of the highest resolving lenses I've tried. Simply excellent.
Macro mode bokeh.
Olympus E-PL5 in an Olympus Housing - best value
What can I say? Every Bluewater Photo customer who gets an Olympus PEN micro-four thirds camera is really, really happy with it. They are usually looking for better auto-focus and image quality than their compact camera system, and they are not disappointed. For a very good price, you can get a good housing, and great fish, reef and macro photos. For another $1,049 you get a wide-angle lens and dome that gives you stunning 180 degree wide-angle shots.
The Olympus E-PL5 is a mirrorless camera, which accept micro-four thirds mount lenses. It has a sensor 4-5 times larger than high end compact cameras, and can auto-focus while taking video. The housing is larger than a compact camera housing, but much smaller & lighter than a dSLR housing. The E-PL5 comes with a great 14-42mm kit lens.
Great housing and camera for the money
Same amazing sensor as the Olympus OM-D
Better image quality and faster focusing than compact cameras
Smaller size and better price point than a dSLR setup
Excellent macro and wide-angle options
Get great TTL with the YS-01 or YS-D1 strobes
Take ultra-wide, ultra-sharp wide-angle shots with the Precision dome port and 8mm fisheye lens
Great selection of small micro-four thirds lenses by Olympus and Panasonic
Do you want 1/250th sync speed and 2 control dials? Check out the new Olympus OM-D
One of my sharpest lenses. Sometimes it hunts in low light, but when it gets it right, it gets it right.
Excellent macro lens for Nikon.
This particular model was made in Japan as these lenses are now made in Thailand.
Read all about this lens here.
While on Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, I came across an amazing butterfly garden when my main macro tool, my Canon G10's battery ran out. My spare battery? Well it was charging back at the room. Was I going to give up? Call it a day? Hell no. Photography is all about being creative and resourceful with what you have. So -- I grabbed my EOS 7D, which I had been using with my 500mm to take close ups of bears and eagles and attached the only other lens in my bag -- a Canon 28mm 1.8 prime. And guess what? It works as an excellent macro lens.
This is an uncropped image taken with that lens, handheld. So there you have it. Macro with a wide angle lens.
Camera Canon EOS 7D + Canon 28mm 1.8
Exposure 1/6400 sec
Aperture f/4.0
Focal Length 28 mm
ISO Speed 400
Still trying to get the hang of the new Canon. Close ups like this have been a struggle compared to my old Olympus, which took excellent macros of the orchids on the auto setting.
The Canon S3is has excellent macro and super macro facilities, the latter allowing you to focus at 0 inches.
Tested with:
Canon 40D
ISO 250
Aperture Priority Mode
Wired Shutter Release
Tripod Mounted
$10 SGD Note >.<
No post processing done other than the cropping and stitching as shown.
Conclusion:
Like most lenses in the market, the image is soft when the aperture is wide open@2.8 and the quality turns out after 1 to 2 stops down as seen in the image.
This lens proved to be useful and would be able to produce excellent macro images if coupled with some image sharpening and noise reduction.
This is an excellent macro and telephoto lens. Sharpness is legendary, low light telephoto is possible on a tripod. I have a really enjoyed using this one!
Details: www.sigmaphoto.com/shop/150mm-f28-ex-apo-dg-hsm-macro-sigma
Camera set up: Canon 450D | Tamron 90mm 2.8 | f/3.2 | ISO 400 | 1/80s
Read my review of this great lens: Excellent Macro Lens
With pinholes you can do excellent macro shots... this one is a grass closeup.
Imagine you would be a frog taking a picture ;)
This half-inch spider crawling on the ceiling was the first shot on a recently acquired Jupiter 37A lens mounted on a bellows. Despite some color fringing, this lens doubles as an excellent macro lens with extension tubes or bellows.
March 30, 2010.
So I was feeling a little uninspired tonight, I didn't want to go outside, I had no immediate ideas for my 365. I have been considering taking a photo of my ZD 14-54mm (mark 1) for some time now, as it has been a fantastic lens, and I cannot really say anything bad about it!
I have used this considerably since getting it, and with good reason! It is a versatile zoom: covering an EFL of 28-108mm, it is sharp, decently fast, and it is capable of fast focusing and excellent macro capability.
Taken with my OM Zuiko 50mm lens at f/4.
Steps: 0.
I picked the title because it was right, and because Fatboy Slim and Christopher Walken made me do it. Seriously, that is one of my all-time favorite music videos.
I'm testing the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX5 point and shoot camera. As far as I can see the picture quality is OK for being what it is (a pocket camera - don't expect DSLR quality), although not significantly improved compared to my old Sony T500 camera (see my photo set with photos from that cam)
I'm not an expert in optics, so I don't know why this is -- but a treat the HX5 shares with lots of other pocket cameras, which DSLR's do not have in a typical kit, is excellent macro capability.
Macro wise this camera has an edge on the T500 in the sense that you don't have to enter a special macro mode to do macros. Just shove the lens as near the object as you want and click. That's a great improvement.
This is an excellent macro and telephoto lens. Sharpness is legendary, low light telephoto is possible on a tripod. I have a really enjoyed using this one!
Details: www.sigmaphoto.com/shop/150mm-f28-ex-apo-dg-hsm-macro-sigma
No joke. We'd been together for five years, and the abuse that this Powershot took showed what a champion it was.... I was *going* to get a new Canon for Christmas, but when we did research, it showed that they'd changed the battery packs and that the cameras no longer had such excellent macro. I NEED excellent macro, half of what I take pics of is super-tiny! Just because I need a PNS doesn't mean it should be a POS. My kind husband tracked down the same model camera and bought me an identical old/new Powershot 720S (which I am using to take a pic of the *old* dead one). Yay!
A Bit of narrow band imaging using the COAST robotic telescope with SHO filters. Image Lrgb SHO using a a clear filter for the luminance channel. Processed using Affinity Photo 2.5 and James Ritson's excellent macros. Denoised etc. using GraXpert AI and AstroClean. I did not reduce the stars as I liked the image as captured by COAST. Data Credit: telescope.org. Open Observatories. Open University.
This is an excellent macro and telephoto lens. Sharpness is legendary, low light telephoto is possible on a tripod. I have a really enjoyed using this one!
Details: www.sigmaphoto.com/shop/150mm-f28-ex-apo-dg-hsm-macro-sigma
Sprawling vine with numerous sprays of tiny (individual flower - ΒΌ") flowers. Often seen as a hazy blue patch. Houston, Texas.
Lacking a good Macro for my Canon and having left my Olympus in the Yukon, which has an excellent Macro, I am forced to crop for the view I want. Nevertheless, I think this one worked out quite well. A spider covered in morning dew just as I found it in the garden this morning. They sure have things here on the coast of southern Canada that we don't see in the Yukon and this is one.