Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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 > That beats the **&^% out of the 5D shot I just saw 10 minutes ago out of the lug gallery Sure wish when I clicked on it it got bigger at all let alone like it did. Its an internet convention. see Click Make bigger I start to drool on the bell when I click but then no dog bone. It looks like an electron microscope shot. And proves the wise adage that if you want macro a rangefinder camera is the wrong tool for the job use an SLR. Which proves what I always say. The rule is usually wrong. Its always what you don't think. As its so totally grainless I wonder if you don't have the color anti noise setting cranked up just a bit high hurting sharpness as here we are at iso 800 and it looks like 100. But too small to really tell. This much sharpness macro at 1/30th of a second is pretty mystical. People into shooting like this often find its very much about using a flash so you can BOTH stop down and have a blazingly high shutter speed. As both is very much more so needed in the macro realm than in the normal realm. You just use a dedicated cord. No one dreams you've used a flash. And its a convention. You get when people are used to seeing. But you pretty much did it without one here. [Rabslov] Mark William Rabiner