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- Cheshire, England
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- Martin Connolly
Another one of the same type as my last post, with the GCam app newly installed on my Samsung phone.
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L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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That's excellently exposed, my Sony often overblown the spots on the back to white. Though that's probably because I can't focus close enough to get an acurate exposure so I have to underexpose.
With a macro lens?
L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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Unfortunately no, best I have is my Tamron zoom lenses, at 28mm it's 1:2.7, at 75mm it's 1:4.1 and the other is 1:2 at 70mm and 1:4 at 180mm.
Ah ok, I wonder if that's the issue then? Just thinking aloud that's all, as you'll be aware that you can get an old used macro lens to adapt to your Sony very cheaply and that manual focus is the only game in town when it comes to macro.
L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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That will be until Sony finally catches up with bringing Focus Bracketing with most of their camera models (unless they are going to artificially segment their product lines with features, like the High Resolution Multishot on a7R and a7C R).
Also they have the Insect Subject Detection (Sony a 7R Mark V, Sony a7C Make II and Sony a7C R) but there doesn't seem to be a lot of buzz (sooooweeeee) around that in macro usage.
Yus, under 150 £ there's a lot of old 50mm, 90mm, 100mm and 105mm macro lenses (including the adapter)
Between 150 and 250 £ are a few native mount manual Chinese and Korean macro lenses though not great IQ.
Between 250 and 300 £ there's Sigma 70mm f 2.8 DG DN Macro ART (the best IQ per £ you can EVER get) and Tokina FiRIN 100mm f 2.8 Macro (better IQ then most Chinese lenses).
At 335 £ starts the Laowa macro lenses with APO design and 2:1 capabilities (24mm, 85mm, 90mm, 100mm).
To get AF in native FE mount you have to go to Sigma 105mm f 2.8 DG DN Macro ART and Sony FE 90mm f 2.8 G OSS Mqcro which float around 500 to 600 £.l
These are all used prices that I mentioned, I looked at every single possible option I could find.
There's a lot I would like and I would like to try but at the moment I think I want to stick with one portable APO 2:1 setup and one wide angle 1:2 unique perspective setup. But I will have to wait a bit longer to make that happen.
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- Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, UK.
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- Richard
Lots of garden spiders on here at the moment.
Here's a fun fact:
🕸️ The circular silk strands on the webs are coated with evenly spaced tiny blobs of glue.
These strands quickly become less effective as pollen and dust sticks to them, so every few days the garden spider will recycle it.
It will work its way around the web, gather the silk into a loose ball at the centre of the web and eat it.
Spider then relays the silk with renewed stickiness
Here's a fun fact:
🕸️ The circular silk strands on the webs are coated with evenly spaced tiny blobs of glue.
These strands quickly become less effective as pollen and dust sticks to them, so every few days the garden spider will recycle it.
It will work its way around the web, gather the silk into a loose ball at the centre of the web and eat it.
Spider then relays the silk with renewed stickiness
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L0n3Gr3yW0lf
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