[LRflex] Re: Table-top Macro Work.

  • From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:37:44 -0800

Ted Grant wrote:

>Hey Guys I have to ask a very simple question about all this technical
>vibration, earthquake proof macro vibrating  picture taking?
>
>What is being photographed and with what kind of lighting, available or
>strobes?  And where is it being shot?  Earth or Mars? ;-)


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Ted, Sonny, et al:

Keith Longmore (UK) originally spoke of photographing watch parts...

>I want to
>photograph watch parts with the R3 using the 25mm Photar and bellows.  I
>have tried already, but have had to get a stiffer tripod and stronger
>ball-head.  With such extreme magnification, the jolt of the mirror was
>enough to cause camera shake, with the camera mounted on a Panagor table-top
>tripod.  Let me explain it this way: a pocket watch balance staff is about 3
>mm long, and has pivots of about 4 or 5 thousands of an inch diameter (12-14
>hundredths of a mm); with the Photar, I can almost fill a 35 mm frame with a
>staff!  Now that's REAL magnification, methinks.

Perhaps you guys missed the original post.

Cheers!
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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA

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