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A quick comparison of the lenses I can use for macro with around 2X magnification. Thought I could share it... I don't own a dedicated macro lens, but I'm still happy with the results.
The subject was a dead butterfly I found a while ago, it looks a bit strange with the broken antennas. It is also always a challenge to get the light right for macros, even in the "studio". Here I used a yoghurt-cup mounted in a Pringles-tube as diffusor and placed a piece of aluminum foil beneath the insect to get the lower part brighter.
The comparison pieces are 100% crops from the untouched raw-images, shown in (how I think) chronological order. A relarively new 35/1.8, a Nikkor 35-70 from analog times, a Canon 50/1.8 and a Fujinon 50/1.4. (Click the links in the image notes to see the details) I tried to keep the viewing angle, magnification and focal plane identical, but I did not completely succeed.
An external flash with a diffusor was used set to minimum power, so all the shots were taken at the same amount of light.
My winner is the Fujinon lens, followed by the Nikkor 35-70. Contrast and grain is pretty good. This is more or less the result I expected, I'm happy my 35-70 performes still good, since I bought and modified it especially for macro. The Canon lens was very bright, and the results here could be caused by diffraction, since I had to close the aperture quite a lot. I'm a bit disappointed by the Nikkor 35/1.8, but anyway the lens is not my favorite since it sometimes produces some ugly CA even in "normal" use.
The large image is a bigger crop of the Fujinon test shot.
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Red Lacewing (Cethosia biblis) is medium-sized butterfly, with a wingspan reaching about 8cm, a species of heliconiine butterfly belonging to the Nymphalidae family. They can be found from India and Nepal, east to southern China and the Philippines, and south to Indonesia. Red Lacewing has a bad taste for predators, deriving from the poisonous host plants of the caterpillars.
Family: Nymphalidae
This picture is taken in the indoor live butterfly garden of the Sensational Butterflies Exhibition, Natural History Museum, London
You’ll be missing so much beauty by not looking close enough. This “Tiny and beautiful butterfly” was shot using the macro setup of my Mobile phone.
I was able to get real close to this guy. This was about the best angle I could get with the leaf and all.
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Dati Exif
Fotocamera Canon PowerShot SX20 IS
Esposizione 0,001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture f/2.8
Lente 5 mm
ISO 80
Exposure Bias -1/3 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire
Took this shot at the park yesterday afternoon.
To see the Asian cousin of this butterfly, see it here: www.flickr.com/photos/stardex/3699867618/?addedcomment=1#... by Dex, my Flickr buddy from Malaysia.
Thanks for your permission to use the same title,Dex... I just added Madrileña to identify that it is from Madrid.
Happy Wednesday to everybody!
Found this holly blue butterfly sheltering in a rhododendron bush too cold to fly off. Focus stacked using zerene.
Found this holly blue butterfly sheltering in a rhododendron bush too cold to fly off. Let it walk onto my finger to warm up a bit and then placed it in a sunnier position on a camellia flower.Focus stacked using zerene.
The weather is perfect and I'm off to Yellowstone Park for the weekend. I'll catch up with everyone in a few days. :-)
Painted lady butterfly feeding on valerian. The first one I've managed some shots of this year. I have seen it a few times in the last week.