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VR 18-200mm @ 170mm, ISO 400, f/8, 1/320 sec

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Hey thomas, this was done with the sigma, but cropped!

Cheers~

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omfg what an amazing image!!!

is the 100mm macro better than the 60mm?

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Canon 60mm f/2.8 macro

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This time I'm pretty sure I captured a bee in action rather than a hoverfly



Canon 40D with 100mm macro lens.

Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/

You always get these stunning results, Greg.
Fantastic!
What aperture did you use?

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Hi Thomas,

Pretty sure that one was "only" f#22. I normally go the whole hog on Bee shots and use f#32.

All the best,
Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/

So that's how you have any DoF? Think I'll have to play more in that region, never mind diffraction.

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3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

Only other alternative is focus-stacking. But that works only on inanimate objects.
And I didn't get any usable results so far from Photoshop CS4

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I personally believe there is a fair bit of nonsense talked about diffraction effects causing sharpness problems at large f#. The only case (so far) where I have clearly seen that a large f# is causing this problem is with a subwavelength periodic structure - a butterfly wing at full macro.
Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/

Pixel peeping is a hard habit for me to break, but softening is easily hidden on resized down images for web use. On the MP-E65 I've had to resort to its limit of f/16, and the diffraction softening is very obvious. But I chose that to get the DoF. I never remember to use bigger f (than about f/8 ) at low magnifications (less than 1x).

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

Dude those are some great bee and wasp pics!

Apis mellifera on the blossoms of the purple-leafed form of prunus cerasifera


Nikon D300 @ ISO 800, 1/1250 - AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED @ f/11 - no flash - only little PP

A bee, an ant and some flowers, all in one.

Invasion of the body snatchers, or The Thing ?

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Now that is a weird insect!! Nice image though (first one!).
Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/