I recall a book I borrowed from the library about shooting pets that had a few pages about a photographer that specialized in aquarium shots. As I recall, he hand held a macro lens with rubber hood, the hood edges touching the aquarium glass. Flash was directed from above, on a cord attatched to the camera. For very small subjects, plexiglass or other clear sheets were used to "cage" the subjects. And the guy cleaned the aquarium glass first. He missed shots from focus, as well.
You may be able to buy a dioptre that takes your macro to life size from Phoenix or Cosina - I have the Phoenix version of your lens and it came with a nice 2-element dioptre. Hope that helps. -Lon Thibouille wrote:
I have a couple aquariums (I should say aquirii, I know) here with fishes & 2 little frogs (ask my wife why :). I tried to take a couple pictures of these but it seems really difficult. My tripod could help but usually those things were not waiting for me so, not the tripod isn't that useful. Tried to snap a couple with my SMCP-FA 100 3.5 Macro and with my SMCP-FA 50 1.4 with stacked macro filters (how do one name those things, I don't remember) but I came up with mostly boring out of focus pics. Any advices? ---------------------- Thibouille ---------------------- *ist-D,Z1,SFXn,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ...
