Jumper!!!!

[VP-]

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/tcline04/jumper.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/tcline04/jumper2.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/tcline04/jumper3.jpg

[VP-]

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/tcline04/jumper4.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/tcline04/kehoetree.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/tcline04/amandaeyeleash.jpg

look close at the one above, for the DOF, it is the grainy looking line running the length of the photo. That is at F2.8 from like, 2 feet, now, imagine that divided by 4 or so, at 11 inches, and you have Macro photography on a bugs eyes. FUCKING HELL.

[VeeKaChu]

The top set is sweet, I love the sparkly green mandibles.

It's cool that your into the technical aspects of the profession; 9:10 people here have no idea what you're on about most of the time- myself included, I'll always be an 'amateur'! But if it's going to be your career, that shit is vital.

My latest digi leans heavily on an enhanced optical zoom, and so does no macro out of the box, which pisses me off. There's an adaptor, but it's 150$ :mad: My older nikon 1.2mp still does awesome macro though, so I keep it around.

[VP-]

veek on e-bay buy a 50mm F1.4 lens for canon, nikon or pentax mount, old manual focus, and then tape it over the end of your point and shoot lens. I posted an example of the magnigication it provides. On my Sony DSC V1 (5x optical zoom) I can fill the frame with a dime.

Much cheaper than some poorly designed adapter. 20-30 bucks for the lens on e-bay. If you don't ebay I could win one for you and then mail it to you with a pay-pal transaction.

I have a nice Pentax 50mm F2 lens that works nicely for this purpose. The aperture ring is broke and it's stick wide open, bought it with a lot of 4 broken lenses for $10, good deals to be had on e-bay veek.

[VeeKaChu]

...or, I can continue to use the Nikon. It is still quite capable! In fact that was one of my favorite aspects of that camera... 1.2mp is actually sufficient for the subject matter, except in extreme- or professional- situations.

http://www.veekachu.com/images/rawrbug.jpg



Jeez we take a lot of bug pics...

[VP-]

Imagine having the bugs head fill the entire frame veek! There is always more detail to be seen ;) heheh.

My town is out of hibernation now. Time to hit the streets and observe.

[matt-]

I like the eye one.

What's the closest focusing distance on that lens?

[VP-]

1:1 magnification matt- the 150mm comes out to 1:1 reproduction at 11 inches from the film sensor, about 6 inches from the end of the lens, 180mm macro is a bit longer, and obviously 100mm is shorter. It's all about working distance as all true macro lenses (MPE-65 excluded) reproduce at 1:1, it's just how close they do it at. Oviously further can be better, i.e. bugs, and also helps with creating more background blur.