After reading Mark Cassino's recent posting explaining how he takes his amazing snowflake photographs I've been itching to give it a try... so of course we get a thaw and no snow falls !!
Today the snow returned and the temperatures were moderate so as soon as I got home from work I hooked up my old screwmount bellows to the *ist-DS, reverse mounted a SMC 55mm F2 on an ST 105mm F2.8, and headed out to the garage. I mounted the camera on a tripod with my latest ebay purchase, a Soligor macro focussing rail, and collected some flakes on a sheet of glass. I put a flashlight in a garbage can to provide some back lighting then balanced the glass on the garbage can, and adjusted the tripod to shoot down through the glass. Here's my results: http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~fwwidall/Snowflakes/ Mark's images are vastly superior but as an early attempt I'm quite pleased with what I got. I think I need to reduce my magnification, and ensure the lens and glass are parallel. Depth of field is approx. zero ! Please don't report me about #5, it wasn't my fault. He just got overheated in his excitment at being photographed :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred Widall, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~fwwidall ----------------------------------------------------------------------
