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.

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."

Ok, well I'll post the full picture:




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

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

It is man made.

I have a Blackadder related clue as well if anyone wants it.


EDIT:

I can't remember the last time I had this much fun!

EDIT 2:

I've gone over 1000 shutter actuations! 1014 is the current count. So far 40 keepers from today.

The only problem with reverse mounting like this is you loose a fair bit of resolution. The DA 50-200 isn't really a high resolving lens either so it gets worse. I hit the resolution limit when looking at a leaf, I really need a microscope

Anyone want to guess what this is?

100% crop (resolution isn't too good):



It is titled in my gallery and the full image is there too so don't go looking (yet)

After that I discovered that my dioptre adjustment bar had been moved, which explains why it was out of focus. I corrected it for the shots in my last post.

Well here we are, SR off, artificial light and a funky setup.

Hair (Full Frame):



Great British Pound Coin (Full Frame):



Hair is transparent.

Hair (100% Crop):



Great British Pound (100% Crop):





I didn't know that, I've been using 2s timer all along, otherwise the camera shakes like mad.

I Know what I was doing wrong!!!

I forgot to turn SR off on the tripod

No PP on any of these, just exported for web from RAW. No cropping, these are full frame.

One of my hairs and some dust on paper:


This one is at F11 and still has some vignette, obviously the aperture of the A 28mm F2.8 is too small, I should really use my A 50mm F1.7.

Amethyst crystal:


You can see what I mean by vignette at F32