charles chien 0 Posted September 23, 2001 I thought it shows enough of interesting detail to share with you. Thanks for viewing. Link to comment
lucinda_man 0 Posted September 23, 2001 Fantastic!!! Is it a flesh fly?????/ Best fly pic I have ever seen. Was it dead or 12 foot tall? great shot.... Link to comment
marc1 0 Posted September 23, 2001 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 Link to comment
mplonsky 0 Posted September 23, 2001 I agree with all of the kudos above. This is a killer shot! Link to comment
michael_alexander3 0 Posted September 23, 2001 Are those shoe laces holding its head together? I would prefer to see more of the mouth. Excellent shot. Link to comment
squirrelman 0 Posted September 24, 2001 Great fly pix and great macro photography. I believe the fly is the same as depicted in this photo of mine. Link to comment
Stock-Photos 1 Posted September 24, 2001 Absolutely fantastic! Makes my fly seem miles away. Link to comment
michael_schweiger 0 Posted September 25, 2001 This is a fantastic macro photo. I wish I had taken it! Link to comment
seven 0 Posted September 25, 2001 Fabulous detail - well done in being able to transfer your mental image into the objective world so flawlessly. Regards. Link to comment
discus 0 Posted September 25, 2001 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! Link to comment
rickey_andrew_mead 0 Posted September 25, 2001 This fly is dead under a scope I would think ? Link to comment
charles chien 0 Posted September 25, 2001 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! Link to comment
calvin_hass 0 Posted October 12, 2001 Amazing! This reallly inspires me to go out and try re-examining the miniature world around me (with a macro lens)... Grotesque :) Link to comment
brian_kennedy 0 Posted October 12, 2001 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? Link to comment
photo.net_hater 0 Posted October 15, 2001 Great shot! Charles, could you provide some details about how you set up the lens and bellows to fit the Canon camera? Link to comment
alejandro_montiel 0 Posted October 21, 2001 This is the kind of picture that makes me continue to do macro photography. It's a great shot!!! Link to comment
charles chien 0 Posted October 26, 2001 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 Link to comment
geoffeldridge 0 Posted February 13, 2002 thanks for sharing the details .. a great view of another world. Link to comment
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