Thanks all, much appreciated. Yeah I hate the orange too. Uh well, couldn't work out a decent analogous colour. Suggestions would be great!

Further 1:1 detail shots here

Bumblebee studio shot (120 shots stacked together)

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It was totally dead, yes. Designing and building a posing cage for live insects is the other half of this winter's macro project!

Hello,

I'm on a bit of an extreme macro binge which generally involves reversing the lenses I have. But I find I get better results if I make a hood that tapers down. And the most practical way to do this is to use one of the soft plastic k mount endcaps. Not the hard plastic ones that newer lenses come with nowadays, the soft older ones (that can be cut to make a hood). If anyone has some of those lying around and wants to swap them for the modern hard ones that'd be peachy.

Thanks!

Ahhhhhhhh, thanks Mike, so instead of embedding the small one you embed the big one, got it. Honestly though it'd be so much more photographer friendly if you could make an image link directly to a flickr page - seems like a cheap way to keep people here rather than going offsite. Why not in a new window if that's the reason for it? Anyhow I appreciate this isn't the place for such a discussion, but still, meh =(

Yeah, I have no idea what's up with this dreadful forum software but however I link it it just shows the embedded link. Can't seem to link it to my Flickr where the large version is, bah.

Questions etc answered here

If anyone has these please pop me a mail here or at codynn at gmail dot com

Thank you!

I have both. 540 also has configgable auto timeout and goes to 1/64. With swivel it means you can bounce of ceilings walls etc creating softer light.