A couple of macro pics (200kb)

[MentholMoose]

I took these two weeks ago, using a Pentax *ist DL and Pentax DFA 100mm macro lens.

[Soulburner]

Not bad

This weather is making me want to get out with the new camera.

[Ashraf]

Not bad

This weather is making me want to get out with the new camera.

Me too.

[5-Clicks]

Nice pics! Aren't those micro shots, though?

[MentholMoose]

Nice pics! Aren't those micro shots, though?

Thanks!

Usually "macro" is used to refer to taking close-up pictures, but micro works, too.

[5-Clicks]

Yeah, it's just contradictory:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/macro

[skate2snow]

I don't know much, but I know that Macro means Close-Up. Probably because you actually enlarge actual objects.

[deepsilver]

[Vapor]

Micro means small...macro has recently been taken to mean "close-up" but really means to make larger than 1:1 (so a grain of rice in the picture is larger than in real life) based on a 4x6 print (I think...tbh I forget...meh). This can be done from any distance, doesn't have to be upclose....just it's a little tougher from a distance as the lens has to be very good with a large aperture, little to no distortion, and a good zoom capabilities and minimum focal length.

In modern digital Point-and-shoot cameras, macro mode has just taken the software to use autofocus to search close range capabilities of the lens.....which is kind of a backwards 'feature.' W/o the separate mode, it would search the whole range on its own, which is potentially slow, so they made a dedicated macro mode and a regular mode for two faster modes

With SLRs, a macro lens is just a lens that can focus and capture at greater than 1:1.

[MaxxxRacer]

I'll have to repost some of my macro shots...

[Magnj]

Yea macro is well none of the shots above...here are some that are macro technically

[Aerou]

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6392/img3932rn1.jpg

really nice one, although lean towards more natural reproductions,
this one has a pleasant feel, nice, bright and vibrant

may I ask which lens?

[ooeric]

holy cow. look at the ZOOM on the pics 2 posts up.

[b0bd0le]

magnj, what lens were those taken with?

[MentholMoose]

Here are a couple of pics of my laptop keyboard. The first one is 1:1. They are uncropped and resized (see links for unresized).


Link to full res.


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[MentholMoose]

Here is a 100% crop of the above 1:1 macro.

[Ashraf]

Not bad. Good job, MentholMoose!

[jamiet757]

wow, I love that one of the bee, I have been trying to get a good one of a bee for a while, but I haven't had the patience to sit there long enough for one to be in the right spot and stop moving



that is one of my best ones, it advanced to the finals in a photo contest, but I couldn't make it to Las Vegas for the showing so it was dropped out.

[Magnj]

magnj, what lens were those taken with?

This was using the reverse mount method. I had the kit lens@55mm mounted on the body with a 55mm Prim lens on the front of it mounted backwards. this game me an effective 1:1 @ 55mm.

[deepsilver]

[Magnj]

Here's my latest...

[TRG]

Here are a couple of pics of my laptop keyboard. The first one is 1:1. They are uncropped and resized (see links for unresized).

Link to full res.

That's a nice macro picture. I like the color tone and composition

I also like the macro-macro pics of insects and stuff:

[lowfat]

A few of my better macro shots.

[largon]

I also like the macro-macro pics of insects and stuff:

http://academics.hamilton.edu/biolog...age/insect.jpg

This image is from an electron microscope rather than a conventional digital camera.

EM imaging is really not point and shoot; you need liquid nitrogen to deep freeze the target, then to gold plate the now rather dead bug in pure vaporized gold. Then you shoot the bug with a ray of electrons and use a "camera-of-a-sort" to capture the electrons the gold plating of the unlucky deepfrozen bug bounces back. EM images have no colors, untampered pics are grayscale - publicly shown pics are often tinted for more prettier appearance.