Tyr's Insane Macro Day.

If you have seen 'Blackadder: Back & Forth' then it was invented by Shakespeare.

Clue didnt help at all sorry.
So i went and cheated

Ok, well I'll post the full picture:




It is a Biro end, the blackish fluid is the ink on the ball.

Did Shakspeare invent the Biro :
I thought it was some dude named Bic

No, but in that 'episode' he does due to a series of unforeseen events and strange goings on.

And now, from Wikipedia:

"László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, was frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted in filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages, and the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore his pages of newsprint. Bíró had noticed that the type of ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge free. He decided to create a pen using the same type of ink. Since, when tried, this viscous ink would not flow into a regular fountain pen nib, Bíró, with the help of his brother George, a chemist, began to work on designing new types of pens. Bíró fitted this pen with a tiny ball in its tip that was free to turn in a socket. As the pen moved along the paper, the ball rotated, picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it on the paper. Bíró filed a British patent on 15 June 1938."

Thanks for the history lesson i was close anyway

I did love watching Blackadder but i dont recall that episode, I gotta hand it to you english you have some great comedians Benny Hill, Rowan Atkinson, The English Cricket team

I'd take this outside but, it is too windy. I need 0.5s to 2s exposures with the current light to get a decent shot. I wish I had a flash.

I found a ruler, so I can now work out the total magnification

Lets see... The K10D's sensor is 23.5mm x 15.7mm and the picture below is 2mm top to bottom.




15.7/2 = 7.85

7.85x magnification!

If anyone is interested in seeing the macro adapter contraption:










Coupling rings would be so much easier...

You could get a job with Sigma any day. They use sticky tape in their lenses, too.

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Yes, but on the inside as well, surely?

(Welcome back !)

That repair/hack, (while one can't argue with the results) looks a little girly to me....now duct tape...there's a mans' tool...comes in black too
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I don't have any duck tape

I don't even have a toolbox!

Just random bits and pieces and some computer tools

On the topic of adapters I have taken a slightly different approach. I have a set of Cokin filters and adapters. So I screw on the filter holder adapters, one side was done like it is supposed to, the other adapter I slid in one of the filter holders. It's not bomb proof but held together well enough for some work on the table top. Only test shots so far. Here's one example with my Ricoh 50 mm reversed on the Sigma 105 mm. The square on the paper is 5 x 5 mm. The "vignetting" on the bottom is the shadow of the contraption (I used the desk lamp as lighting). No sharpening applied

You are not getting this magnification thing

I've got a whole lot more pics up now...

Two of the same thing:









Something else:








They get harder:








And the last of this lot:








If you get fed up with guessing you can look at the titles in my gallery.