Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: It's Full of Stars
From: dmorton at gmail.com (David Morton)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:56:49 +0100
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Just the lens on F??4/3 adaptor. It was at its 24cm closest focus,
which left plenty of room for the Rotolight LED array in front (the
source of the 'stars').

Thank you for looking.

D

On 16 September 2010 04:19, Montie Talbert <montoid at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Interesting, Did you have an extention on the lens or just the
> straight macro? I'm surprised the DOF is great as it is!
>
> Montie
>
>
>
>>>I've been fascinated by some of the wonderful macro photography shown
> here of late, and sometime last week I had one window open with
> examples of that technique, and another on the page of Leica user
> portraits and self-portraits. This caused an idea?possibly a very bad
> idea?to pop into my head: might a macro self portrait be fun to try?
>
> Sometime later, and I'd made this:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DHM/FullOfStars.jpg.html
>
> Those of a nervous disposition may want to think long and hard before
> clicking the 'show large' button.
>
> Lumix GH1 with 55mm f3.5 micro-Nikkor. In order to squeak back on
> topic, the title is?as I'm sure you know?from that lifelong Leica user
> Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
>
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