One more thought....I guess a Nikon 200mm macro lens, 2x teleconverter, and a good quality closeup diopter would put you at something like 3x? Possibly adding an extension tube for a bit more? Not as flexible as the MP-E-65, but it would save a lot of expense and system-switching hassle if that's en...

Getting a Canon body with the MP-E-65 seems the most practical way to do this, but as you've pointed out, flashes and accessories would really stack up the cost. If you don't need one of the specialized macro flashes (MT-24 or MR-14) you could probably get by with using cheap Vivitar flashes that do...

Very interesting photos of a worthy trip to a place that many of us will never have a chance to see! And of course, any photos of snakes are good photos!

I hope Danny is doing all right. Anyone have any word from him recently?

Very strange, I'm using Firefox 3.0.8, and both load fine for me. Both links also work in Internet Explorer. Aren't obscure compatibility problems wonderful?! If you really want to see them, go to photomacrography1.net/forum/ and search on "velvet" (without quotes) and choose the image posted on Nov...

I have a 77mm one which works excellently on my Canon 300/4 IS. I've never gotten good results from it on my 100-400L zoom lens, nor on my 24-105mm lens. My suspicion is that it doesn't do well with zooms, but I've read many people on the internet claiming it worked great with their 100-400L lens, s...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1165930/Barry-giant-sea-worm-discovered-aquarium-staff-mysterious-attacks-coral-reef.html I'm posting this because it is an interesting article with some decent photos, but Barry is much too large to be a photo subject here....But maybe someone can get ...

High resolution video--I'm sure they used one of the new Canon or Nikon DSLRs with video capability, right? Very interesting stuff. I never thought I'd hear "Spintronic" mentioned except maybe in a Jetsons cartoon, but it sounds like it may happen before too long!

I like that "Maaaama didn't raise no-oooh portrait photographer!" :lol: To me it sounds very much like they talk in the Southern U.S., I can almost hear Forest Gump speaking. Do you talk like this in Oklahoma? Yep, some of us talk very much like Forrest Gump! I have a Gump-like twang, but I still t...

I remember that we went on a 600 km journey to see him when he spoke in Germany once. I regret that I didn't take photos back then, there would have been the opportunity to, he is not camera-shy. Maybe you are going to take your camera and can take some shots to post here, that would be great! :D I...

I got back about an hour ago--There were actually two presentations, a panel discussion in the afternoon where five relatively local (but still academic) figures talked about the future of science, the success of our special state science high school in Oklahoma, and the creationism debate and scien...

I'll ponder it--I'm nervous about them deciding I am press and putting me in a pickle if I lose place in a line to stow it in the car (they had a horrible crowd mess here recently when Richard Dawkins spoke and 2500 or so people showed up).

Wow, an answer in six minutes! Very cool, and good job NU! When I was a child one of my favorite playthings was a big plastic bag of filled with injection-molded plastic fishes and sea creatures of various sorts, and among them was a large (compared to the others, still only four inches long or so) ...

Incidentally, if you look at the link I provided announcing his talk, beneath his photo it shows a list of several of what someone evidently thinks are his most memorable books (The Ants book won a Pulitzer Prize, as I recall).

http://www.amazon.com/Ants-Bert-H%C3%B6lldobler/dp/0674040759/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236647929&sr=8-1 The above is his magnum opus, in my opinion (it is actually a collaboration, though). His books on Evolution and the Future of Life are great. He has a book called "Naturalist" that lo...

http://www.usao.edu/usao-psychology/EWSymposium.htm E. O Wilson will be here in a couple of weeks. I'm definitely going to go see him in the evening speech, and if work situation allows, I will go for his part in the panel discussion in the afternoon. Whee! Alas, he won't be talking about ants, but ...