Excellent photo

Motor-on, have you got a Macro lens or just using the macro setting on a digital camera?

I used to take a lot of macro photos with a SLR but you really need a Macro lens, tripod, patience, and really good depth of field. Minichick and Climber got some excellent depth of field but when you get REALLY close, and inch or so away, its all about depth of field ... and I don't if you got a point and shoot digital, I dont think the lens can be stopped down to F16 or F22? I have just a cheapo Nikon cause I'm too cheap right now to buy the full digital SLR setup and the huge cost of buying all kinds of lenses. Easily $5K and up!

Excellent pics ppl and GREAT ideas. I like the Marcos!

 

DSLR so some are on a zoom lens with macro feature , but I've since busted that lens, and now use diopter filters, I have some with the diopter and the macro, but those were a pian because it was near microscope level of magnification an depth of field about as deep as a sheet of paper if I was lucky. Never had a dedicated "true" prime macro though

I'm limited to shooting wide open as I have dirty CCD and until I can find someone who can clean it without making things worse unless I'm wide open and about 1 stop under exposed I get black spots all over the image.:impatient

Here are some past MINI macros and after seeing Juans macros I'm thinking of some engine shots, and for the past few weeks there has been a shot I've been working in my head that will likely be this months photo contest entry.

 

Diopter lens I hated them because every time you add something in front of the primary lens, it only degrades the images (like unless you get the really expensive teleconverters, its always better to buy the longer telephoto if you can afford it).

If you really going to get into this, you need a Ring Light. Just google it for whatever make lens you got. They aren't cheap but then you can stop all the way down and get the depth of field

 

 

Dang, and I, in turn, am being inspired by your shots!

 

That's neat. I love NAM can allow people to expand in ways we'd never had considered previously.

 

man, I can't wait for my dslr to come back from the shop.. my macro lens is sitting here.. lonely.....it needs it's body!!

 

These were in my gallery. I haven't had time to shoot anything on my MINI as of yet.

 

Trying to refrain from the Young Frakenstien jokes

I can't imagine not having my DSLR for a few days (course I haven't shot a single image on my film SLR in a little over a year)

I love the third photo in the set.

I'll have to get Minvader to post some of his macros here.

And a few more flowers.

Poor Scaning from a slide





The last two show the differance between a 70mm macro shot and a 300mm +1+2+4 diopters shot.

 

I really like this one...

 

Way to go Drew... hit me with one of my weaknesses!
Really quick, here's a few of my macros... I'm in the middle of processing 3gb of photos from yesterday's Mini track day!

The camera was a Sony F717 (I recently got the new Sony a100 DSLR.) The extra lens mounted (backwards) to the end of the Sony is a Konica 50mm f1.4 (from the early 70's). I used a macro coupler I ordered from B&H for $8, and I already had the lens sitting around. So for next to nothing I got a HUGE increase in the macro capability of my camera. Depth-of-field seems like it might be even more of an issue than it was with just the camera alone, but more research and possibly a different 35mm lens might help that in the future. These are my very first attempts at using this setup, so hopefully I'll get better with it. At the very least it looks like a great way to get super close to objects that are nearly flat... too bad that's not what I'd normally find myself shooting though. None of these are cropped... just resized for use on the web.


Sony F717 macro


with "super-macro"


Sony F717 macro


with "super-macro"


Sony F717 macro


with "super-macro"


Sony F717 macro


with "super-macro"


Sony F717 macro


with "super-macro"


Here's the camera setup:





Many more macros to post... some even Mini related... imagine that!

 

You my friend are INSANE. That is awesome!

-Cody

 

Yep... I just might be! Here's a few more, I will dig up some more soon, maybe even some that are Mini-related!


Return of the baby frog.


Dragonfly.


Emerge ants.


This is a gnat. (100% crop)


Ant with see-thru belly. (100% crop)


Grasshopper face.


Grasshopper eye. (100% crop)


Locust fresh out of the shell.


Let me go.


Waterdrop on an apple. (see the DOF thinness)


Yamahahahaha


Split second.

 

Tiny Bubbles


Dragonfly sepia toned and hand tinted


Jordan Olivia


Berries


Christmas Ornament in IR


Dragoncream


Celtic Cross in Aberdaron, Wales


Mac is cool, I think I'll shoot some more

 

Macros are pretty cool

 

Dug up another one.