- Location
- Northern California
Ah, those segments are part of the Yagi array, didn't notice the first time!
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Nature Show 'Insect'
- Thread starter soundimageplus
- Start date
- Location
- Northern California
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- Location
- Traverse City, Michigan, USA
Barbeque, Cheddar, Sour Cream? Which Pringles? I tried Original but it didn't come out as nice as this.
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK.
- Name
- Charles
Excellent.
- Location
- Northern California
Thank you!
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I wanted to try the "light pipe" theory of the Pringles can gizmo, and Safeway had Pringles on sale this week, so a bit of (real!) duct tape and slicing later, I came up with this. I originally tried it with a "regular" mini-softbox diffuser over the end, but that lost too much light. I got the bright idea of using diffuser spray on the original Pringles plastic replaceable can lid (I bought that spray in 1987 and I'm dang well going to get my money's worth!) and that worked great:
I fooled around with this rig using my mostly-neglected-these-days 70-300 zoom, but I found I got the best results around 85mm. That gave me the brainstorm to use my 60mm macro with a 1.4x teleconverter, for which I wanted a 16mm extension tube to make sure the TC didn't hit the back of the lens:
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- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
Well done, CaGs.
I'm a great believer in the sewer pipe school of astronomical attachments myself. e.g. dew shield on my 80mm refractor:
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"Lens cap" is a 100mm sewer pipe cap. Gap at bottom allows air circulation around the front element in use, and allows the dew shield to slide back around the optical tube assembly carrier when stowed.
- Location
- Northern California
Ha! Two years ago I made an entire reconfigurable blind/hide from PVC pipe, camo fabric, and spring clamps.
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK.
- Name
- Charles
CatsAreGods and John King, men after my own heart!
- Location
- New Zealand
- Name
- Tímo
- Location
- NE Ohio or Bangkok
- Name
- Russ
OldRex
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- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Name
- Mark
- Location
- Bloomington, Indiana
- Name
- Mike
Cool! Thanks for the photos. (MacGyver was a photographer, wasn’t he?)
- Location
- NE Ohio or Bangkok
- Name
- Russ
- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
- Location
- Rutland, UK
This is definitely NOT a macro lens! HAHA! Very heavily cropped, but then I suppose that's when the 40mp XT5 sensor comes in handy?!
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I can see I really need to step up my game if I'm going to post any bug shots here.
Here's my meager effort from this morning when I just grabbed my camera for some quick shots this morning.
Mind you, I was just trying to take some pictures and the bee happened to be there, honest. Made my day that I was able to get the shot in somewhat reasonable fashion. SOOC jpeg except for cropping. Thanks for letting me post here.
Here's my meager effort from this morning when I just grabbed my camera for some quick shots this morning.
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Mind you, I was just trying to take some pictures and the bee happened to be there, honest. Made my day that I was able to get the shot in somewhat reasonable fashion. SOOC jpeg except for cropping. Thanks for letting me post here.
