How close can you take a shot (I love close-up detail)
If everyone takes a snap of a penny as close as they can we can see who has the biggest penis^h^h^h^h^h macro ;)
I gues posting a 640x480 to give a general idea with a link to the full resolution version would be easiest?
Nikon 4500
(http://www.abovetheinternet.org/images/pennysmall.jpg) (http://www.abovetheinternet.org/images/pennybig.jpg)
(http://www.morssdn.idps.co.uk/images/smlpenny.jpg) (http://www.morssdn.idps.co.uk/images/bigpenny.jpg)
Nikon 8400, 50mm from end of lens. I can get closer but you get better quality at the mid-point of the lens zoom. Big image cropped to about 50% of original frame. 2003 penny, still been in the wars!
this was rather embarrasingly the best i could get from my camera:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.woodford/penny.jpg)
Cannon Ixus i :lol:
(http://www.m3-computers.com/s5000/macro.jpg)
Er... sorry its a Ã,£ not a p but meh... same size almost :D
S5000.
Apologies for the depth of field shot, but its an old photo I took which was experimenting with stuffs :)
well, unfortunatly I dont really have a proper macro lens in my arsenal at the moment. With what equipment I do have, and in the limited light of 10 to 11 at night, this is the best I can do.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/thatguypinchedmyname/penny-crown-web.jpg)
Might try again tomorrow in natural light since then Ill be able to stop down a bit and maybe improve the resolution some.
Pentax *ist DL2 with a reversed SMC FA 35-80 zoom set at 35mm and closest focus plus RMC Tokina 2x converter. Wide open at F8, 2seconds and 200ISO.
holy crap mongoose thats impressive - especially considering the lighting constraints.
Thats not macro though is it, reversing the lens ;) Cheat! :lol:
lol @ reverse lens + closeup filter.
Cheating barsteward! :P
its not cheating, its using the full capabilitys of my interchangable lens DSLR :P thats how I take all my macro photos. BTW no close up filter was used, just a standard teleconverter and a zoom lens mounted backwards with an official Pentax Macro Reversing Ring. All perfectly kosher macro equipment if like me you cant afford a proper macro lens.
If Id wanted to cheat, Id have done this (lol):
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/thatguypinchedmyname/cheat.jpg)
the above is a rather cheaky tight crop of the bellow, todays re shoot with a 28mm prime reversed and stopped down to F8 (actually F16 with the converter) in natural light
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/thatguypinchedmyname/Penny-crown-28mm.jpg)
nothing wrong with doing it any way you can providing you put up how you did it IMO ;)
/gets out microscope and F-converter... :twisted: