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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Small Insect at Work
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:17:04 -0500
References: <CC35F53A.19EB9%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com><C4C6DDF8E30342B0A89CFA28917E888A@jimnichols> <2A5C75F3-4F9E-4FB0-8744-10A1A12C96F5@gmail.com>

Thanks, Jayanand.  For what little flash work that I do, I really can't 
justify a ring flash, and it just adds to the weight and clutter.  If I 
change my working style, I might consider it.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Small Insect at Work


> Very nice. Whatever solution you devised has worked well. Get yourself a 
> ring flash!
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 26-Jul-2012, at 5:10 AM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> I agree with you, Chris.  And I was working with a manual focus lens, 
>> which I normally use with the Aperture Preferred mode.  However, the 
>> system for using reduced flash intensity is omitted in Aperture Preferred 
>> mode.  You either get no flash, with the popup down, or, full flash with 
>> the popup raised.  So, I had to devise my own solution.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Crawford" 
>> <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>
>> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Small Insect at Work
>>
>>
>>> Macro photography should be done with manual focus because of the
>>> extremely shallow depth of field. In order to get everything you need in
>>> focus to be sharp, you often have to focus partway between the closest 
>>> and
>>> farthest objects in the image, and stop down accordingly. Autofocus does 
>>> a
>>> poor job of this (and the fact that modern lenses lack depth of field
>>> indexes makes it hard to do manually too!). They include AF because the
>>> lens can be used at normal distances too, where AF works fine.
>>>
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>>> On 7/25/12 6:44 PM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Same with my Canon 20D, there?s some obscure setting
>>>> for reducing the proportion of flash that is so obvious
>>>> when you read the manual but immediately forgotten when
>>>> you want to use it:-)
>>>>
>>>> What?s funny is that the Canon manual recommends using
>>>> manual focusing with their EF-S 60 mm AF Macro lens (so
>>>> why build it with AF in the first place?):-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Douglas
>>>>
>>>> On 26.07.2012 00:19, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>>> Thanks, Douglas. But, it takes some experimenting to
>>>>> make it balance out when using a manual-focus lens.
>>>>> On my Oly, flash only works full strength in the "A"
>>>>> position. :~(
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Sharp"
>>>>> <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
>>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:34 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Small Insect at Work
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Very nice one Jim,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> goes to show that fill-flash can be invaluable at
>>>>>> times.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> Douglas
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 25.07.2012 20:48, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>>>>> While experimenting with fill flash, I caught this
>>>>>>> small insect deeply involved in his morning's work.
>>>>>>> Even the large bumble bees could not route him out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is a small crop at 100% size.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Small+Insect.jpg.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Olympus E-510 with Leica Elmarit-R 60 Macro, ISO
>>>>>>> 200, RAW
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>>>>
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In reply to: Message from chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford) ([Leica] IMG: Small Insect at Work)
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