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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Garden portrait
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:52:19 -0400
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Is this the rig that makes it work?

http://harrysproshop.com/90mm_Macro_Elmar/90mm_macro_elmar.html

I'm amazed that the rangefinder is that accurate.
Focusing the Noctilux at 5 ft is one thing, this macro setup I am 
flabbergasted that it works so well!

Great stuff.

-rei


On 05/11/2010 09:28 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
> Thank you everyone for looking.  This was fun to try out and the focus was
> pretty easy as there is an angled magnifier that screws into the eyepiece.
> THe parallax correction is excellent also. I was just shooting some flowers
> and trying it out. This was shot on a tripod for the best quality. I had to
> recompose (so the tail went out of focus a little) after the subject
> expressed its displeasure by making a very large deposit on the leaf! I
> think that it had poodle bones in it.
> Focus distance was about half a metre and this is a crop of course. This is
> about one quarter of the original pixels wide and the view you see is at
> actual pixels level (not downsampled). So the magnification is effectively
> 240ppi divided by 90~100ppi screen resolution
> The grasshopper is about 100mm long in the body (~4 inches for our US
> friends)
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
> On 11 May 2010 22:58, Rei Shinozuka<shino at panix.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I have to ask, how is this possible?  First, of course, it's an amazing,
>> arresting image.
>>
>> Forgive my ignorance, but I've never done any sort of macro before.
>> Outside of a visoflex, how can you get this close to something and focus?
>> Inquiring minds need to know!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -rei
>>
>>
>>
>> On 05/11/2010 12:34 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> You're right, rangefinders can't do close ups.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11 May 2010 14:33, Vince Passaro<passaro.vince at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Send it back. That's not close enough.
>>>> V
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Geoff Hopkinson<hopsternew at 
>>>> gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> Today I received a macro adapter for my Macro Elmar 90 and tried it out
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> on
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> my M9 (ISO 800 100% crop).
>>>>> No Valanga Irregularis were harmed in the making of this portrait
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hoppyman/2/ghcu.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Geoff
>>>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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