Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/01

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Flutterbys Using the Takumar 135
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:17:23 -0500
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On Sep 1, 2015, at 5:13 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:

> Thanks, George, but I had trouble getting him to pose................ :-)
> 
> The short extension tube would work fine on an optical bench, but the 
> focus movement is too sluggish to use tracking insects.  It does produce 
> nice images if you are lucky!

Are you hand holding the camera?

I find in my macro work that focusing with movement of the camera works best 
(for me).

the macro rails on most bellows units serve that purpose;
similar to microscope focusing

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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