Quoting Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net>:
Wow - those are really great! I assume the flower must be at least 3
inches long for the shots without any closeup filter? Quite sharp
and clean images. The macro are really excellent as well. I'll have
to look into the closeup lens 450. I tried some single element close
up lenses I have, including the ones lensbaby makes, but they are
very soft and full of distortions.
The flower spike is about 4 inches long (quite small for a Banksia!)
I don't know a lot about the close up lens. Apparently Canon produced
(or maybe still produce) a range of these in various strengths, some
of double-element achromatic design and some not. I think the former
have a 'D' suffix in the designation. Mine doesn't so I suspect it's
a single element version.
Thanks for the comment - thanks also Rick, Bob and Christine.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
Mark
On 3/31/2013 8:14 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
G'day all
Looking at Mark's post about his macro tests with the Q made me
realise that I needed to get off my backside and take some photos
with my Q.
My needs are more modest than Mark's - I'm more into close-up than
true macro - so, rummaging around in my bits and pieces drawer I
came across a Canon Close-Up Lens 450. I'm not sure where it came
from but may have been attached to an old Canonflex SLR I bought
some years ago (that's certainly the only Canon I've ever owned).
The close up lens is 58mm diameter and fortunately I had enough
step -up rings between 40.5mm and 58mm to be able to mount it on
the front of the 06 zoom (5 step-up rings in total).
Here's a very quick experiment using my favourite plant as a subject.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/PentaxQ/pentaxQ.html
The first two photos are without the close up lens attached, just
to see how the 06 zoom preformed on its own. The third photo is
with the close up lens attached and as close as I could get to the
plant while still being able to autofocus.
Unfortunately, I was so concentrated on focusing distance that I
totally forgot about depth of field, so these are all with the lens
pretty much wide open. But, all told, I'm pretty happy with the
result and the close up lens will become part of my 'Q Kit'.
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