PICTARS!!! Ballpoint Pen Macro Photos

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: foghorn67
How do you like Smugmug? I have been enjoying your pics over the last few posts.
What are the ups and downs?

I love smugmug

I used to do free image servers and smugmug is just so much faster and 100% reliable. Photo storage is unlimited, and the basic membership gets you a 6GB traffic quota a month, which I'm having a hard time getting to.

There's a lot of convenient options to set up your galleries too. These guys for the most part thought up everything, and I've heard their customer service is really friendly and enthusiastic too, unlike places like pbase.

Well worth the annual fee.

Cool. thanks for the input.:camera::beer:

 

[mugs]

That's pretty cool, but
1. Why aren't you looking through the viewfinder?
2. I'd like the first couple a little better if more of the pen was in focus.

 

[Mrvile]

Actually, fuzzy, a reversed 30mm on a 180mm macro is 6x magnification.

Take the mounted lens and divide its focal length by the reversed lens focal length. 180/30 = 6.

I only have a 150mm macro lens and a 50mm reversed lens to use, so I only get 3x magnification, which is hard enough to shoot with. I can't imagine 7 - 8x...

 

[ruffilb]

Wow, great pics.

 

[schneiderguy]

website doesnt really work in opera

 

[SlitheryDee]

sweet :thumbsup:

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
Actually, fuzzy, a reversed 30mm on a 180mm macro is 6x magnification.

Take the mounted lens and divide its focal length by the reversed lens focal length. 180/30 = 6.

I only have a 150mm macro lens and a 50mm reversed lens to use, so I only get 3x magnification, which is hard enough to shoot with. I can't imagine 7 - 8x...

Doh! Corrected! I knew the formula, just didn't do the math right

7-8x is absolutely nuts. A macro rail and perhaps a ringflash is pretty much a requirement.

Originally posted by: mugs
That's pretty cool, but
1. Why aren't you looking through the viewfinder?
2. I'd like the first couple a little better if more of the pen was in focus.

1. I focused throught the viewfinder, so after that I don't need to look through the viewfinder (I was using a tripod).

2. Depth of field/focus is really really shallow at those magnifications. The only way to get more of the pen in focus is to take multiple pictures and composite the in-focus bits into one single picture.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Koing
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/gallery/1692220/1/83119864

My favorite one.

Thats not 1600x ????

Koing

You said the image was 1600 x 'something' once you clicked on it, and it isn't.

Koing

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Koing

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Koing
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/gallery/1692220/1/83119864

My favorite one.

Thats not 1600x ????

Koing

You said the image was 1600 x 'something' once you clicked on it, and it isn't.

Koing

Click on the "O" next to Other Sizes.

 

[phisrow]

Impressive, most impressive </Vader>

 

[SSP]

Your whole gallery is freakin great! :thumbsup:

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Thanks guys! I just redid some measurements, and with the full 65mm of extension tubes I'm up to 10X magnification! That's a quarter the magnification of a biology dissecting scope

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Koing

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Koing
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/gallery/1692220/1/83119864

My favorite one.

Thats not 1600x ????

Koing

You said the image was 1600 x 'something' once you clicked on it, and it isn't.

Koing

Click on the "O" next to Other Sizes.

Sweet :thumbsup:

Koing

 

[SpanishFry]

awesome. we may need a photog subforum