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Fly Headshot (II)


charles chien

Canon D30, Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.4 @f16 reversed on a bellows lighted with two flashes at night.


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This is either a 12 foot fly, or you have got a magic talent for these shots, its absolutely fabulous, sorry the rates dont go that hight, 11/11, marc
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Fabulous detail - well done in being able to transfer your mental image into the objective world so flawlessly. Regards.
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very impressive!!! excellent image, and well done to keep the limited DOF to an image that almost totally fills the frame with a sharp, interesting picture. fantastic!
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First of all, thank you all for viewing and taking your time to rate and comment.

 

I would like to have a few points made here to clear up some issues that came up:

1. This fly was alive when I saw it, and when I was done taking pictures of it.

2. This fly was a regular-sized fly which is about 5mm in size.

3. This fly did not go through my freezer, or anyone's freezer that I know of.

4. No microscope was involved.

 

Hope this clears things up a bit :o)

 

Thanks again. And, happy shooting!

 

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Amazing! This reallly inspires me to go out and try re-examining the miniature world around me (with a macro lens)... Grotesque :)
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I really wish you had gotten all of the mouth parts, but I still have to give this double 10s ;-). Outstanding macro!

 

BTW, about how much magnification are we talking about here, 5:1? Greater? How much DOF... less than 1mm?

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First, given that this photo was done with a bellow, not a Canon lens that would have recorded somthing that I could use to judge it. I can only guess what the actual ratio is. Judging from the photo, the width of the area that was covered was about 5-6 mm, and the width of the CMOS on my D30 is about 22 mm. That would make it about 22/6 = 3.7x and 22/5 = 4.4x, so it is about 3.7x-4.4x. The DOF should be about 2 mm the most. Please note that these are just estimation.

 

Regarding to my particular setup for this shot, here are some thumbnails where you can click to get some detailed view of - http://www.geocities.com/cchien_starbase/D30_Bellows/ThumbNails.htm

 

I took these photos just for demonstration purpose, so please go easy on them

 

1. A top view of an eyecup that I made for my Canon D30.

 

2. The back view of the eyecup. Notice that I am apparently not a professional eyecup maker. And, you can see part of the Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.4 lens reversed in front of the bellows.

 

3. From the right to the left: Carl Zeiss lens, a 55mm-filter-thread-to-Exakta-mount adapter, Exakta-mount-to-t-mount, t-mount extension tubes, t-mount bellows with slider below, t-mount-to-EOS, D30, then my eyecup.

 

4. The top view of #3 above.

 

5. Detail of Vivitar Bellows that shows its age too.

 

6. Another view of the bellows and D30. It again shows the age of the bellows.

 

Regarding to Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.4, here are some links:

 

1. A short review on it - http://www.photo.net/photo/contax/50-1.4

 

2. Specification: http://www.contaxcameras.com/slr/lenses/planar50mmf1.4.html

 

Well, I have taken enough of your time. Hope it is helpful!

 

Happy shooting!

Charles

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