Canon Thursday September 17, 2020

As usual, post up to 3 photos, 1000 pixels max size.

Fall Gold at Holmdel Park, Holmdel, New Jersey US

Tuesday afternoon I discovered a praying mantis sitting on a side table in my living room, and I thought that it presented an interesting photo opportunity. Stated out with my trusty M5 and the EF-M 18-150 and bounced a Godox Ving 860-II C off the wall/ceiling. That gave IMG_2687.

I grabbed the EF 100 f/2.8 USM Macro lens to see what that could do, so I switched to the SL 3 and decided to get fancy with my lighting and involved a Godox V1. Shooting away, shot after shot, flash not firing. It is said that a symptom of madness is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result! It finally penetrated my rather thick skull that the friendly people at Canon had done away with the center contact in the hotshoe, and I had neglected to take my Godox/Flashpoint pieces to Adorama for a firmware update. Switched to the SL 1 and fired away, got _MG_9807.

Then my battery died, and all the handy LP-E17 were equally devoid of life! Moral: check your battery state more often! Having three (!) spare batteries in the M 5 backpack did me no good. Rather impressed with my own stupidity I switched to a fourth (!) camera, the 80 D, and got ambitious. Manually setting the Macro at the minimum focusing distance I moved the rig until I had the framing I wanted, _MG_9818. Scary face!

5D mkII EF25II Helios 44-2

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5D mkII EF25II Helios 44-2

It's good to see you back here, Marcel. This thread has been getting sparse.

5D mkII EF25II Helios 44-2

It's good to see you back here, Marcel. This thread has been getting sparse.

Thank you Ajkocu. It’s been a while, I have been ill (covid) , but getting better.

5D mkII EF25II Helios 44-2

Tuesday afternoon I discovered a praying mantis sitting on a side table in my living room, and I thought that it presented an interesting photo opportunity. Stated out with my trusty M5 and the EF-M 18-150 and bounced a Godox Ving 860-II C off the wall/ceiling. That gave IMG_2687.

 

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I grabbed the EF 100 f/2.8 USM Macro lens to see what that could do, so I switched to the SL 3 and decided to get fancy with my lighting and involved a Godox V1. Shooting away, shot after shot, flash not firing. It is said that a symptom of madness is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result! It finally penetrated my rather thick skull that the friendly people at Canon had done away with the center contact in the hotshoe, and I had neglected to take my Godox/Flashpoint pieces to Adorama for a firmware update. Switched to the SL 1 and fired away, got _MG_9807.

 

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Then my battery died, and all the handy LP-E17 were equally devoid of life! Moral: check your battery state more often! Having three (!) spare batteries in the M 5 backpack did me no good. Rather impressed with my own stupidity I switched to a fourth (!) camera, the 80 D, and got ambitious. Manually setting the Macro at the minimum focusing distance I moved the rig until I had the framing I wanted, _MG_9818. Scary face!

 

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Funny story. It's good to have options available! No more center contact, huh?

5D mkII EF25II Helios 44-2

 

 

Thank you Ajkocu. It’s been a while, I have been ill (covid) , but getting better.

I'm hoping you'll have a full recovery, Marcel.

I am going to flagrantly violate policy and post a fourth photo this week. My friendly insect was nowhere to be found Wednesday, but this afternoon it materialized in the hallway. As it was in imminent danger of becoming high protein cat food, I scooped it up and dumped it outside in the ivy where I managed to get one shot in.

just some flowers from the front garden

Canon EOS 3