Fungi ?
by markm
Found what appeared to be small fungi in the images I took of the Acorns. Reshot this morning, getting as close as I could with the 100mm macro lens. the cropping as much as I dare. Total of 54 images stacked with Helion Focus
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Uploaded04/11/2025 - 11:11
CategoryFlowers & plants
Posted 05/11/2025 - 00:52
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Well spotted - the little perishers will grow anywhere! You appear to be set up for precision so try a short tube and a reversed 50mm lens?
Posted 05/11/2025 - 06:59
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davidwozhere wrote:
Well spotted - the little perishers will grow anywhere! You appear to be set up for precision so try a short tube and a reversed 50mm lens?
I have been looking at various YouTube videos about macro. I will have to look into that method. I guess a manual lens would be needed.
Well spotted - the little perishers will grow anywhere! You appear to be set up for precision so try a short tube and a reversed 50mm lens?
Pentax KP Body, K70 Body. Lens 18-135 55-300 50-200 17-70 USM 100mm Macro Pentax 150 - 450 & Samyang 10mm
Posted 05/11/2025 - 08:33
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Just watched a video, no need to get another lens, just hold the aperture lever with tape / blu-tack, obvious really.
Pentax KP Body, K70 Body. Lens 18-135 55-300 50-200 17-70 USM 100mm Macro Pentax 150 - 450 & Samyang 10mm
Posted 05/11/2025 - 13:53
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If you take the glass out of an A series 1.7 50mm (easy to do) and mount that as your 'extension tube you will find that the camera will happily control the aperture as normal. You then set any (M42 for example) lens to wide open and reverse mount it onto the front of the ex A series 1.7 et voila - a fully controllable mega macro set up.
I think it was 'John le Frog' who first suggested this on this very forum, donkey's years ago and there is an in depth account available. Put the words "empty lens" in a search engine. The site is no longer supported and comes with warnings.
I think it was 'John le Frog' who first suggested this on this very forum, donkey's years ago and there is an in depth account available. Put the words "empty lens" in a search engine. The site is no longer supported and comes with warnings.
Posted 05/11/2025 - 16:35
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Just searched for "empty lens" and found a very useful article on the Extreme Macro site. Thanks for the info, will hunt out an old Pentax A 50mm.
Pentax KP Body, K70 Body. Lens 18-135 55-300 50-200 17-70 USM 100mm Macro Pentax 150 - 450 & Samyang 10mm
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