Picture of the Day

[Metric]

Metric, I really like what you did there. I've tried reversing my Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G (making sure that it's wide open with the use of a piece of cardboard in the mechanism) and having my Nikkor 55-200mm at various ranges, mostly at 200mm. I can't get a sharp picture like you did though, I assume it's my lenses. I've seen many people do it with a 50mm and a 100mm, people such as Brian Peterson, but also others on the internet. Do you reckon it's the combination of a 50mm and a 100mm that does it? Is the 50mm necessary? A 50mm lens certainly seems to be popular, I've seen it being done with a 70-300mm and a 50mm with good results too.

Getting a sharp image with stacked lenses is very difficult since you're losing light with the added glass and distance to the sensor, plus in your case with your 35mm + 200mm, you're hitting a magnification of 6.7 or so ([35 + 200] / 35) and with that a very, very shallow depth-of-field.

The 50mm primes seem very popular choice since 1.) Their price of <$100 and 2.) shown below, a decent magnification level. As for lens choices, so far for me, it's a tossup on whether the lens matters. The kit 18-55 lens has given me decent results - it still can't compare to a dedicated macro or the 50mm f/2 in terms of sharpness, but I found the quality satisfactory.

Here's a visual I threw together this afternoon to get an idea of how much stacking lenses with increase the magnification. All of these are not cropped, the only post-processing done was black and white conversion, contrast boost and some sharpening. As a mentioned earlier, a lot of light is lost, so for these I used 2 100w light sources and only barely managed a 1/4" of a shutter speed on the last shot (70-200 + 18mm).

Enjoy

[shazza]

Thanks for the stacking example, Metric!

[ANP !!!]

Great info there Metric

I have been away for a while, hope everyone is doing great , hope I didnt miss much of the great pictures. I will catch up soon.

Here is mine for the day.

Camera: Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 10 mm
Exposure: +0.75
ISO Speed: 1600
Sigma 10-20 EX HSM

[Mescalamba]

My adition to pole shots.. its not telephone, but I think that electric isn´t worse.. is it? I found pretty interesting thing.. it seems that G1 has lower noise at ISO 200 than on ISO 100.. wierd.. (unless 200 isn´t nominal and 100 isn´t just brightened 200..).

Camera: Panasonic DMC-G1
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal Length: 25 mm
Exposure: 0.00
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV

[1Tanker]

Finally opened a flickr account.




- Camera - Canon A80
- Exposure - 1/250
- Aperture - 2.80
- Focal Length - 7.81mm
- ISO - 50
- Flash - Not Fired

[Marin]

Camera: Canon 50D
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/1.2
Exposure Bias: 0
Lens: Nikkor 55mm f/1.2

[AceNZ]

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[FischOderAal]

Hello there It's been a while, I was busy writing my bachelor-thesis. I just had my kolloquium today

This one is from wednesday.



# Camera Model = Canon EOS 450D
# Lens = Sigma 105 mm Makro
# Apterture = 1/160 Sekunde ===> 0.00625 Sekunden
# F-Stop = 56/10 ===> ƒ/5.6
# ISO Empfindlichkeit = 400
# Focal length = 105 mm

[EagleRock]

I have been very busy with school, not much time to take pictures but today I went out and took some

Ladybug




Camera: Canon 40D
ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/13
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

[hikaricloud]

More telephone poles/lines...



Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 29 mm
Exposure: +0.95
ISO Speed: 200
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

[lha]

I took this photo at Norway trip near Narvik at this summer. Comment please. The camera was crappy but shoop da whooping make everything better

[Mescalamba]

FischOderAal really like your spidey.

lha Terve, not bad pic.. would be nice to have EXIF info, or at least with what you shoot that.. It has quite nice dreamy look. I would maybe cut that bottom green part.. and little bit of top sky..

[Metric]

Hello there It's been a while, I was busy writing my bachelor-thesis. I just had my kolloquium today

This one is from wednesday.

I see your spider and raise you this


Canon 400D, Reversed Nikkor 50mm f/2 Al @ f/4, 1/100" @ ISO 400.

[Cpl Ledanek]

n00b here also
long time lurker, first time submission


Nikon D3000
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 36 mm
Focal Length: 36.7 mm
ISO Speed: 360
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off

[AceNZ]

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[Elisha]

Camera: Sony DSLR-A700
Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 1250
Exposure Bias: +0.3 EV
Lens: Minolta 28-135mm

[AceNZ]

@Elisha -- I love the colors, textures and lighting on that one. It captured what looks like a beautiful and peaceful moment.

[Dualist]

Camera: Fuji S2Pro
Exposure: 1/1000sec
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 252 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Lens: Nikkor 70-300mm

Not 100% happy, not as sharp as I would like, but still learning

[EagleRock]

Camera: Canon 40D
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: f/4
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM


Comments are welcome

[shazza]

Very nice, Elisha.

@Eagle Rock - nice detail. Have you tried adjusting contrast / levels a bit to see if you can give it a little more oomph?



Here's one at 6400 ISO (Canon 5D MII) ... taken inside a lowly lit museum:

[EagleRock]

@Eagle Rock - nice detail. Have you tried adjusting contrast / levels a bit to see if you can give it a little more oomph?

I'm not very good with editing but what do you think about it now ?

[Elisha]

Try the following setting using the Unsharp Mask filter in Photoshop:

Amount — 20%
Radius — 50
Threshold — 0

[Marin]

Camera: Canon 50D
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/8000 sec
Aperture: f/1.2
Exposure Bias: 0
Lens: Nikkor 55mm f/1.2

[spaz77]

Nikon D90

[AceNZ]

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