nickolay_lavrik

... as a wide angle lens ;-))

Comments and ratings welcome.

Macrowork at its best!

Mark, I would also like to thank you for the excellent macro tutorial. It reminded me about a very efficient but often orverlooked use of an inverted lens together with a built-in zoom. It appears to work very well even with my A40.

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If you would like to expand macro capabilities of your G2, I would suggest a snap-on macrolens. Even higher magnification and resolution can be acheived by using an inverting ring + a 50 mm fast (at least 1:2) lens. This way you can still use autofocus for fine focusing (the focusing range would be on the order of millimiters). I have used Pentax 50mm F1:1.4 together with Canon A40 and am very satisfied with the results (some photos are uploaded in my portfolio).

Photo.net features a great in-depth article about digital macrotechnique by Mark Plonsky.

After seeing this tremendous difference in your responses (and taking into account some of the suggestions), I deleted the earlier version that had too much of motion blur. Thank you all for the valuable feedback.

I appreciate all the comments, ratings, impressions, and suggestions.

Indeed, I often feel the need of localized unsharp effects but I use a fairly old version of Corel PhotoPaint (version 7) that does not have local unsharp masks. I know that PhotoPaint 8 has this feauture and it's probably time to upgrade my software.

Evokes old memories and recollection of those golden times...

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