Wasps, I don’t like’m but they make good macro material.
Only this one didn’t really fly it walked up my desk at work, so I took a snapshot and then it just tumbled over.
Never new a flash could do that.
Exposure Time 1/125
F Number f / 11
ISO Speed Ratings 100
Focal Length 105mm
Ring Flash
The next images are also at f/8 but with a Raynox DCR250 , DCR150 stacked added what give a 4:1 magnification. If I’m correct.
I really don’t know anymore how many shots I stacked and I didn’t difuse the flash enough. On the other hand… I think they are usable.
Cheers
Ronny
ps nothing fancy just a velbon slide rail, ring flash and 2 raynox adapters.
A few bee shots.
Hi everyone,
sorry for not being active last month’s.
Not that I haven’t been going out taking pictures but except for placing the pictures on my smugmug account I haven’t had much time for anything else.
Now I’m slowly getting back to my normal regime, don’t know what type of bee it is, only that I’ve been seeing more of them the last weeks.
Just some snapshots with : k5 – sigma ringflash – sigma 105mm
Exposure Time 1/125
F Number f / 13
ISO Speed Ratings 200
larger: 2825 x 1871
Exposure Time 1/179
F Number f / 11
ISO Speed Ratings 100
larger: 3000 x 1987
Exposure Time 1/179
F Number f / 11
ISO Speed Ratings 100
larger:2758 x 1827
Exposure Time 1/179
F Number f / 11
ISO Speed Ratings 100
larger:2495 x 2495
Cheers
Ronny
The fly is back
I made a bit stronger construction of my macro rig (still no picture)
I changed from helicon focus to Zerene Stacker. HF is great but to expensive and Zerene works as good (imho better)So now the result a 4:1 macro
19 shots, k5, sigma 105mm, raynox 250dcr, raynox 150dcr, flash with difuser and extra plastic cup diffuser)
For the larger version (3000*2000) click Got this the way I want it.
Cheers
Ronny
Next housefly ‘eye’ close up
Hi,
i’ve always been trying to get closer, and I think I’ve found my current limit.
somewhere around … 25:1 macro 
(I know its larger than 20 and smaller than 30 so ?)
the lens used is an “American Optical Microscope Objective Plan Achro X10″
placed on a “RMS Thread to M42 Adapter for microscope objective cone”
on a pentax bellows (fully extended) with a k5, taking 41pictures and stacking them.
no cropping
It still isn’t perfect
- a lot of chromatic aberation – don’t know if its the cheap lens or if all microscope lenses have this
- not enough images – the microsled (read old cd-rom) still isn’t fine enough
a stepper motor would fix this, but I don’t want to go that way (yet) - not sharp or enough details , again the lens or me
- still need to find a better way to get the object in the viewfinder
Cheers
Ronny
last weeks
We’re having great weather, it is the sunniest and driest autumn I remember. (even a bit to dry)#1: Boletus edulis or cep.
Exposure Time: 1/179
F Number: 9.5
ISO Speed Ratings: 400
Focal Length: 105
Sigma 105mm.#2: Viola although it’s great weather, the mornings have started with a lot of fog. Giving enough drops.
Exposure Time: 1/125
F Number: 5.6
ISO Speed Ratings: 100
Focal Length: 50
Tamron 17-50 f2.8
#3: A view on the garden of a castle near my work.
3 shots at -2ev 0 +2ev, then hdr merged with nik hdr pro.
F Number: 5.6
Focal Length: 30
#4: A rose, a focus stash of 7 handheld images using photoshop.
Exposure Time: 1/179
F Number: 6.7
ISO Speed Ratings: 140
Focal Length: 105
Sigma 105mm
7 shots.
#5: Playing with light, these are 2 merged shots, one with flash, one without. I only used the flashed image to lighten the part under the cap.
2 shots
Exposure Time: 1/3
F Number: 6.7
ISO Speed Ratings: 100
Focal Length: 105
Sigma 105mm
#6: Fly (8:1 macro – or micro shot), a combination of 25 pictures focus-blended with helicon focus.
This is the first result of my first homebuild macro rig.
Now don’t expect much of it because it consists of a part of a broken cd-player and lego’s.
I’ll post some shots of it with the next results (if I’m not to embarrassed about the lego part 
)
Exposure Time: 1/2
F Number: 6.7
ISO Speed Ratings: 200
Focal Length: 105
K-5 + PzAF 2x teleconvertor + 68mm extention tubes + sigma 105mm (at 1:1) + Raynox 250dcr + Raynox 150dcr
Cheers
Ronny