Penny macro contest - revisited

Roger.
The more I look, the more there is to see!

Too late to do any more this evening. More experimenting to come another day...
It may well be fun, Steve but this is also b****y GOOD!
Roger.
High praise from someone who specialises in the details of a fly's eye! Thank you, appreciated.
Steve
Roger.
The more I look, the more there is to see!
Steve,how about giving it the full PP works & see how it comes up?
Depends on progress with domestic duties...

I'm going to have another go in a few days time, trying to focus as accurately as possible and with a less well rubbed penny! These were done using the camera screen but will try the flucard to get a bigger image on the tablet. 1/8 mm steps on the focus rack (Novoflex) should be possible in principle, perhaps a bit better if I'm really careful.
At the back of my mind is creeping up to reversing a 24mm on 300mm + 1.4 TC and attaching a Q via the Q/K adapter. That means approx 17x magnification and extracting the centre of the magnified image with lots of closely packed pixels. And there's always the possibility of reversing the Q 01 8mm prime on the 30mm. But the aberrations, vibrations, depth of field, diffraction ...

Steve

Steve

So this is my setup using my K3 with Pentax Bellows, Vivitar Extension tubes and a 20mm F4 reversed set up as below, penny stuck to door with Blue Tac:

This was a RAW image adjusted in Affinity to correct lighting issues:

Against the JPEG straight out of the camera:

Chris,
Pentax K1ii, K3, K-m & MX-1.
Pentax LX, MX, ME Super & MV.
"Old Skool" with the new!
Bloody cheat
The hundred year old farthing or sixpence pictures were taken with a 105mm Sigma DG Macro, I was not trying to pass them off as "Penny Macro", just showing what I may have to use if I couldn't find a One Pence coin for an image of the "IRB" letters, the farthing doesn't have any letters under King George's head, it is B.M.


Taken with an MX-1 in Macro Mode.
Chris,
Pentax K1ii, K3, K-m & MX-1.
Pentax LX, MX, ME Super & MV.
"Old Skool" with the new!

To focus the camera, 200mm lens and a 28mm reversed onto it, swaying about on a tripod would have been near impossible. Putting the plant pot on a slider made things far easier. For the sake of scale, that is money spider silk you are looking at.
Both the *istDS and the K5 are incurably addicted to old glass
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