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I took this with a 90mm Tamron macro. About 8 inches from him. A 50mm would have been too close and scared him off.
[IMG]http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu25/wildlifephotog/Cabbage-White-Pieris-rapae--1.jpg[/IMG]

Comment by greyhoundman posted on macro lens 5omm prime or 35-70 zoom at 08/10/2009 - 22:32

greyhoundman
Check out this gentleman's work. He is very good.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zamb0ni/

Comment by greyhoundman posted on How to take amazing space photos at 08/10/2009 - 22:20

greyhoundman
You should stop by Cloudynights.com and check out the photos there.
Hubble is old news these days. Ground based scopes can do amazing things with multiple frame capture.

Comment by greyhoundman posted on How to take amazing space photos at 08/10/2009 - 22:17

greyhoundman
I used Registax 5 and DeepSkyStacker. Then PS to clean up some noise, and a couple dead pixels.

Comment by greyhoundman posted on How to take amazing space photos at 08/10/2009 - 22:11

greyhoundman
Amatuer astrophotography buffs have made tremendous advances in the last decade. It takes much practice and will power.
I shot this over 8 hours at 1F temperature with a modded webcam and a dob scope. The spent two days getting all the frames processed. Comet Lulin.

[IMG]http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu25/wildlifephotog/Lulin-web.jpg[/IMG]

Comment by greyhoundman posted on How to take amazing space photos at 08/10/2009 - 22:08

greyhoundman
Thanks Lars.

When you get out there with the long lenses, you have to get the habit of having your eye centered.

Comment by greyhoundman posted on Need input from manual focus lens users. at 06/10/2009 - 15:21

greyhoundman
I make my own split screens from ME Super and Yashica FX3 screens. I use the O-ME53 for close work. I use a DK21M 2X eyepiece for astro work.
And this is with both my DS and K200D.

I was just using a split screen last night with my 1200mm scope. As long as my eye was centered, the split did not black out.

Comment by greyhoundman posted on Need input from manual focus lens users. at 28/09/2009 - 19:16

greyhoundman
I can now report.

Just for fun I tore into a Yashica FX-3 Super junker. It has a nice 45 degree split screen. Turns out it is 1.35mm thick, Pentax is 1.38mm thick. Cut the screen with the split centered to 26.24mm long, 18.02mm wide. Dropped it in, and perfecto. Dead accurate with the AF. Metering is just fine.

Comment by greyhoundman posted on K200D focus screen size at 17/09/2009 - 22:25

greyhoundman
Looking good.
I think my 70-300 is glued to my camera.

Comment by greyhoundman posted on practice shots with my tammy at 17/09/2009 - 14:09

greyhoundman
THANK YOU.

I tried the search engine and came up empty. Now to get busy.

Thanks again.

Comment by greyhoundman posted on K200D focus screen size at 17/09/2009 - 00:04

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