Hi Mark, Toine
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:08:53 -0400 Mark C wrote: > >Your approach is certainly much more elegant than what I tried. The Raynox on >the 06 telephoto zoom retains the compactness of the overall Q kit. Just a quick check to see if I understand this correctly, the Rainox 250 is an 8-diopter closeup lens, so the subject distance would be something like 12.5 cm right ? And that would be almost independant on the focal-length of the Q-lens being used. So, wouldn't it make just as much sense to use it with the (even faster) 01 standard lens instead of the 06 telezoom ? I am looking into getting one, they go for something like 75 Euros here, including a step-up ring from 40.5 to 43 mm. >Do you have any sample images taken through the Raynox? I had initially >considered this approach but was concerned about the Q's AF and the 06 zoom > it was pretty slow without a closeup diopter and I worried it it would be too > slow with one. I tested the Q and 0y with a reverse mounted 50mm and had > major >problems getting AF to work, but when it did the results were great. The v >1.11 firmware seems to address the AF issue with the original Q and the 06 >telephoto > it is quite fast even in dim light - so the Raynox is looking appealing. I just went to the Pentax Japan site for that 1.11 update, and it is 'temporarily unavailable' :-) BTW: The rolling-shutter distortion in the Bee images that started this thread looks quite remarkable. Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
