[Leica] IMG: Bee Image with Close-Up Lens, for Moose

Don Dory don.dory at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 11:12:27 PDT 2020


Depending on your lense filter size you might try a Nikon 6T, Canon 500D or
one of Leica's many two element lenses typically found in series 6 or 7.
They really improve edge sharpness.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:23 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
wrote:

> Thanks, Don.
>
> On 10/13/20 12:20 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> > Well done.
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 12:00 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I obtain close-ups of insects in many different ways.  Yesterday, Moose
> >> mentioned close-up lenses, which I haven't used for some time.  Today, I
> >> magnetically attached my 2.5 diopter  close-up lens to a Pentax 55/1.8
> >> lens on the X-T2 and went to the Buddleia.  This setup allows a working
> >> distance of about 12 inches or less, so I had to find a subject I could
> >> move in close to. This Carpenter Bee was cooperative.
> >>
> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20201013-DSCF2251.JPG.html
> >>
> >> Ignore the lens data in Exif.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jim Nichols
> >> Tullahoma, TN USA
> >>
> >>
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