[Leica] IMG: Macro Lens with Extension

[Mark Rabiner]

Instead of a tripod for such stuff lots of people who do a whole lot of this kind of stuff use a coiled through the lens metering cord instead to connect their flash which then goes off at 1/80,000 of a second at that close distance and has you shooting stopped down where you need to be which is f 16. For some reason the shots don’t come off like cheap flash’s shots as in other genres partly because the light is coming often from way off lens axis and something having to do with the ultra-close distance that’s had to anyone for anyone to explain. Part of that may be its just become par for the course in these shots people are used to seeing macro shots of bugs and flowers with sharp hard not quite available lighting.
Macro requires ultra-fast in effect from the flash exposures  (duration) coupled with  f 16 and be there. 
There is no other way to get this than with flash. A tripod is like dropping anchor in the middle of the ocean and going fishing.

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 9/22/17, 10:39 PM, "LUG on behalf of Jim Nichols" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

    Thanks, Jayanand.
    
    Jim Nichols
    Tullahoma, TN USA
    
    On 9/22/2017 9:27 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
    > You managed very well, indeed!
    > Cheers
    > Jayanand
    >
    > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
    > wrote:
    >
    >> The Leica Elmarit-R 60 Macro lens comes with an add-on rear extension for
    >> ultra-closeup work.  This is difficult to handle hand-held, but I tried it,
    >> none-the-less.  This requires placing the lens just a few inches from the
    >> subject and moving slightly to achieve focus.  This first image of a bee is
    >> the full image vertically, with only the ends cropped to remove extraneous
    >> plant matter.
    >>
    >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20170922-DSCF5375-1.jpg.html
    >>
    >> The second image is cropped further, but gave me the best detail I have
    >> been able to obtain of the Woolly Aphid, whose length is only about 2mm.
    >>
    >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20170922-DSCF5292.JPG.html
    >>
    >> Better images would be achievable with the use of a tripod, but that is
    >> not possible with these small visitors to the Buddleia bush.
    >>
    >> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
    >>
    >> --
    >> Jim Nichols
    >> Tullahoma, TN USA
    >>
    >>
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