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Sep 07, 2007 13:02 |  #1

I recieved my Canon 100 2.8 macro yesterday. Great lens, super sharp. Had a bit of a scare, though. I heard the UPS truck pull up, and as I was opening the door, I heard the driver utter a loud "$H!T!". As I stepped out the front door, I saw my BH Photo box rolling in the street. "$H!T is right", I was thinking. "Hope there is nuthin too expensive in here" ,he says. "Just a $500 camera lens", I say and after he realizes I am not kidding, he gets a little pale. I open the box while he is still there and it is packed VERY well, surrounded by airbags, so all was well. Box made it 800 miles from New Yofk to my driveway, but almost couldn't make it the last 20 ft.
Anyway, the wind was a howlin' so I was stuck inside to play, so I tried some of Brian's (Lord V) macro exercises.


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Sep 07, 2007 13:03 |  #2

A couple more:


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Sep 07, 2007 13:19 |  #3

Looks like your going to have to update your sig ;). Have fun with the lens, I just wish I owned one :(, oh well all in good time right. Looking good even with the UPS guys fumble.


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Sep 07, 2007 16:40 |  #4

tmonatr wrote in post #3882169 (external link)
I recieved my Canon 100 2.8 macro yesterday. Great lens, super sharp. Had a bit of a scare, though. I heard the UPS truck pull up, and as I was opening the door, I heard the driver utter a loud "$H!T!". As I stepped out the front door, I saw my BH Photo box rolling in the street. "$H!T is right", I was thinking. "Hope there is nuthin too expensive in here" ,he says. "Just a $500 camera lens", I say and after he realizes I am not kidding, he gets a little pale. I open the box while he is still there and it is packed VERY well, surrounded by airbags, so all was well. Box made it 800 miles from New Yofk to my driveway, but almost couldn't make it the last 20 ft.
Anyway, the wind was a howlin' so I was stuck inside to play, so I tried some of Brian's (Lord V) macro exercises.

Where did you find these "exercises"? Is there a tutorial somewhere?


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Sep 08, 2007 00:58 |  #5

troypiggo wrote in post #3883501 (external link)
Where did you find these "exercises"? Is there a tutorial somewhere?

Macro exercises
#1 DOF,Aperture and diffraction http://www.digitalgrin​.com/showthread.php?t=​58028 (external link)
#2 Focusing http://www.digitalgrin​.com/showthread.php?t=​59406 (external link)
#3 Focus stacking http://www.digitalgrin​.com/showthread.php?t=​61316 (external link)
#4 Lighting http://www.digitalgrin​.com/showthread.php?t=​64695 (external link)

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Sep 08, 2007 01:40 |  #6

air bags save the day. Enjoy your new lens.


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Sep 08, 2007 07:53 |  #7

Thanks Brian. I'd seen the focus stacking one, but not the others. It's usually the lighting in your photos that gets me so I think I'll look at that one first.


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Sep 08, 2007 08:30 |  #8

Great exercises. Does anyone know if there is any focus stacking software available for a mac yet? Thanks.


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Sep 08, 2007 09:20 |  #9

4g63photo wrote in post #3887382 (external link)
Great exercises. Does anyone know if there is any focus stacking software available for a mac yet? Thanks.

Only stacking software for the MAC I've seen is Helicon focus- commercial software www.myzips.com/softwar​e/Helicon-Focus-Mac.phtml (external link)
There is some other freeware software for the mac- this- bigwww.epfl.ch/demo/ed​f/ (external link) this needs ImageJ to run which I think is also freeware

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