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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Small Insect at Work
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:07:29 +0530
References: <CC35F53A.19EB9%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com> <C4C6DDF8E30342B0A89CFA28917E888A@jimnichols>

Very nice. Whatever solution you devised has worked well. Get yourself a 
ring flash!
Cheers
Jayanand

Sent from my iPad

On 26-Jul-2012, at 5:10 AM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

> I agree with you, Chris.  And I was working with a manual focus lens, 
> which I normally use with the Aperture Preferred mode.  However, the 
> system for using reduced flash intensity is omitted in Aperture Preferred 
> mode.  You either get no flash, with the popup down, or, full flash with 
> the popup raised.  So, I had to devise my own solution.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Crawford" <chris at 
> chriscrawfordphoto.com>
> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Small Insect at Work
> 
> 
>> Macro photography should be done with manual focus because of the
>> extremely shallow depth of field. In order to get everything you need in
>> focus to be sharp, you often have to focus partway between the closest and
>> farthest objects in the image, and stop down accordingly. Autofocus does a
>> poor job of this (and the fact that modern lenses lack depth of field
>> indexes makes it hard to do manually too!). They include AF because the
>> lens can be used at normal distances too, where AF works fine.
>> 
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>> On 7/25/12 6:44 PM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> Same with my Canon 20D, there?s some obscure setting
>>> for reducing the proportion of flash that is so obvious
>>> when you read the manual but immediately forgotten when
>>> you want to use it:-)
>>> 
>>> What?s funny is that the Canon manual recommends using
>>> manual focusing with their EF-S 60 mm AF Macro lens (so
>>> why build it with AF in the first place?):-)
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Douglas
>>> 
>>> On 26.07.2012 00:19, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>> Thanks, Douglas. But, it takes some experimenting to
>>>> make it balance out when using a manual-focus lens.
>>>> On my Oly, flash only works full strength in the "A"
>>>> position. :~(
>>>> 
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Sharp"
>>>> <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:34 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Small Insect at Work
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Very nice one Jim,
>>>>> 
>>>>> goes to show that fill-flash can be invaluable at
>>>>> times.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Douglas
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 25.07.2012 20:48, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>>>> While experimenting with fill flash, I caught this
>>>>>> small insect deeply involved in his morning's work.
>>>>>> Even the large bumble bees could not route him out.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This is a small crop at 100% size.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Small+Insect.jpg.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Olympus E-510 with Leica Elmarit-R 60 Macro, ISO
>>>>>> 200, RAW
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>>> 
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Replies: Reply from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] IMG: Small Insect at Work)
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