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snowbear · Oct 15, 2014

Sounds good. I have one to shoot but it isn't in the apartment.

I guess I could do a closeup of some dryer lint.

snowbear · Oct 15, 2014

I guess I could gaff tape the 135 and the 20 together for 1:6.25 magnification. That should open some possibilities if I follow the cats around. It won't be anything like Sparky's rig but you have to work with what you've got.

sm4him · Oct 15, 2014

snowbear said:
sm4him said:

snowbear said:

OK. Looking forward to it, but first you have to guess whatever it is that's there now,

I need a haircut but that doesn't have to be done today. Oh yes, I forgot what else I plan to do: I have to flirt with you ladies a tiny bit.

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I know, and that just doesn't seem like it's gonna happen, if it's still that black thing with holes that looks like the drain catcher on my coffee maker.

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I'm thinking they may not be real holes. I tried looking through his posts, as he alluded to, but I don't see where he started many.

Well, I just realized that he doesn't actually say it's a post in a thread he STARTED, so it could be ANY of his posts in any thread...ain't nobody got time for that!!

sm4him · Oct 15, 2014

snowbear said:
I guess I could gaff tape the 135 and the 20 together for 1:6.25 magnification. That should open some possibilities if I follow the cats around. It won't be anything like Sparky's rig but you have to work with what you've got.

I have a Tokina 100mm macro; that's what I'm using for most of my shots. I also have Kenko extension tubes that I can combine with the macro lens, so I can get some pretty good close shots, but with these whatsits, you also have to be careful that you don't get SO close, with so little DOF that it's pointless for anyone to even guess.

One of the ones I just did--one of the "easy" ones, the first picture I took was too close. That thing could have been ANYthing!

snowbear · Oct 15, 2014

Well, actually I do have time, but I'm going to use it for other things. I think someone else deserves a change to win.

snowbear · Oct 15, 2014

I've been using the 105mm macro (I don't have tubes). It's 1:2 (half size) but works well enough. If I want a closer shot, I've just been cropping.

Maybe I'll use this one. I don't have another shot, though.

sm4him · Oct 15, 2014

snowbear said:
I've been using the 105mm macro (I don't have tubes). It's 1:2 (half size) but works well enough. If I want a closer shot, I've just been cropping.

Maybe I'll use this one. I don't have another shot, though.

That's one of those clowns in California. With a headlamp, and glowing eyeballs. :biglaugh:

snowbear · Oct 15, 2014

Hmmm . . . I could say something . . .

Actually, it's trash can fodder. I apparently fat fingered one of the knobs as I quickly turned to shoot and ended up with this.
It's an ambulance. I caught the top strobes in center-white phase. It's just so neat looking (to me) that I kept it.