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- Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:23 am
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: hotshoe "tilt flash down a bit" flash unit?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2548
hotshoe "tilt flash down a bit" flash unit?
I was wondering if anyone had come across such a thing, and where. My flash bracket broke and actually I quite like having the flash & diffuser just sit in the hotshoe on top, it's more portable without all the bracket and cable gubbins. But I'd love to be able to point the flash down a bit more. Bu...
- Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:14 am
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: What's this for?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2189
- Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:08 am
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: How to improve quality
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2386
I was very pleasantly surprised with the increase in contrast & quality once I decided to try a hood over my reversed lens using just a spare endcap with the flat end cut off. My diffuser is relatively large (about a 120 degree arc over lens, protruding almost in front) and the cap seems to have dea...
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:29 am
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Polarising film over flash goes yellow
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1721
Polarising film over flash goes yellow
Hello, Doing some first experiments with x polarisation, I notice that the small strip of film that I stickytaped directly over the flash head appears to develop a yellowish haze/streak in the centre. I suspect that this is due to heat and that heat from flash destroys polarising film. So I should p...
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:46 am
- Forum: Beginners Macro
- Topic: First pic
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2196
Ahhh, thank you so much DQE, rjlittlefield for taking the time! Really really really appreciated. I guess I got lucky with the light so yes DQE, that whole 'coming out the shadows' thing does make it look pretty. The lighting and background are really areas I personally want to work on so I was quit...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:32 pm
- Forum: Community Members and Friends
- Topic: Good Morning =)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4385
Yes, thank you very much for that NU. It might surprise you to read that I have a reputation for, and also personally value, facts. Which is why I feel quite the prize prat. Entirely my own fault. I'm old and ugly enough to know better than to let enthusiasm get the better of me. I'm really not in t...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:19 am
- Forum: Community Members and Friends
- Topic: Good Morning =)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4385
Well I guess this sums up my day, and entirely my own fault through an overenthusiastic attempt to participate - apologies , apologies and yet more apologies . I could grovel and scrape a bit more but I rather hope that's enough. I'm very embarrassed. I am rapidly learning that the things I thought ...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
- Topic: micro app
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1235
micro app
Interesting wired article on a new app store app coming out. "Over 550 insects have been captured using Scanning Electron Microscope technology before being compiled on the Mini Monsters app, available for £1.99 on 12 September from Apple's App Store, in a venture which sees the SPL make their vast ...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:09 am
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Doli fly complex colour pattern on eye
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13477
Lauriek, that is correct, I should have read the article. "A Condylostylus sp. was photographed with a Canon EOS camera the built-in flash at a shutter speed of 1/200 s = 5 ms. Photographs in Fig. 1 were taken with an interval of ca. 20 s within a 4-min period. The fly, startled by the flash, was ab...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:16 am
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Doli fly complex colour pattern on eye
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13477
Re: Literature Search
... am a bit puzzled by the testing with a Cannon EOS. I am not familiar with this camera, but it puzzles me that the flash supposedly starts before the shutter is opened? Hello, Modern DSLRs have various flash modes one of which, on some models, is something known as "HSS" (high speed synch). This...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:53 am
- Forum: Equipment Exchange
- Topic: Flexible polarizing film
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4629
Very new here, and only learned about this technique a couple of days ago, but I came across this the other day and it arrived on my desk this morning:
Polarising Glass Stress Check Polarizing Film 21x15cm
£13.99 for 21x15 cm flexible film, should be good for a few flash output covers
Polarising Glass Stress Check Polarizing Film 21x15cm
£13.99 for 21x15 cm flexible film, should be good for a few flash output covers
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:08 am
- Forum: Beginners Macro
- Topic: First pic
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2196
First pic
Hello, Very new to taking things above 1:1 (1 week new even) and first shot posted in this forum - taken last Sunday handheld using a reversed Pentax SMC-k 50 1.2 lens, with homemade diffuser on top at 1/8. I got lucky, this is the entire frame. If you click through you should be able to get to the ...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:53 am
- Forum: Community Members and Friends
- Topic: Good Morning =)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4385
Good Morning =)
First of all let me say how glad I am to have found this site as it seems to me that the level of experience and knowledge far exceeds my own, as does the technical level. Fantastic! I'm just your average middle-aged guy who is a bit of a photography nut. I moderate on a large photography forum so I...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:19 am
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Takumar 50/4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2146
Likely to be good but I can't say for definite - I use a SMC-k 50 1.2 reversed which was the successor range from Pentax but is based on the same optical design and it's stellar. But it also has a lot more glass than a 4 so can't say for definite. Thomas uses a 50 tak I think and his results arn't t...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:11 am
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: moth
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3639