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Spent the other day playing with manual legacy lenses on the E-PL1. Was babysitting the grandkids and they don't sit still making manual lenses a challenge.

The subject matter is unremarkable but was taken with a Soligor 55mm f/2.8 with a 25mm extension tube to give 1:1.

 

Great idea for a thread, Kevin, and if it's any consolation I don't think anyone here thinks you're losing your marbles! This macro world offers up a completely different point of view that many of us might never see. Thank you, Bill, too!

I think this is going to be a longterm thread for sure.

 

Great images. Love the Jurassic Clips.

 

First attempt with the LX5 macro function. Kind of fun...

-Ray

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  Ray! Now you've gotten me thinking!

 

Not sure why, but this photo and a few I posted in another new thread are getting squeezed down to square. They're linked to images that are 1024 x 774, but they're not showing up that way. Any idea what's up?

-Ray

 

I don't know, Ray. The markup clearly has the following in the img tag: width="1024" height="774"

Looking at it in Safari's web inspector, it's showing that the width is becoming 800px; height is remaining 774. I'll look into it later and see what's up.

 

As I posted on your Longwood series thread, I think it's the black borders. From what I can see you've followed everything perfectly correctly and, thus, I think something about the borders on these photos is doing it. Can you post one in a version w/o the borders to Flicker and try it. I was just on my way over here to look because I saw this one on Flickr and it looks so much crisper and cleaner on Flickr than it does here. Not that it doesn't look good here, too but I immediately noticed the difference, having seen it here first.

P.S. deirdre, I didn't see your post. Thanks for looking into it more, if you are able to. My bet is them borders.

 

OK, it's not the borders. I just attempted to post a normal large size 1024 x 683 photo in the Kitty thread and it became squashed. We'll have to look into this. There must be a glitch somewhere.

 

This must be related to the forum software upgrade I did last night. Working on a fix right now...

 

Thanks, Amin - all is well with the embedded world now.

 

Turns out I've been having all kinds of internet connection problems for the past several hours as well. Which our cable company just finally acknowledged was on their end. I hope this didn't contribute with these problems in any way. It seems not since you were able to fix them in the forum software. In any case, thanks...

-Ray

 

Geodesic domes go macro! Cool, Kevin!

 

It is amazing how the simple and mundane seem to become exciting when taken Macro.