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Maybe it's the moon phase ????? the gutter is definitely getting full.....




you guys are toooo funny...

Originally Posted by joe greiner

If I had two cameras, this might be easier to interpret. The sheet metal bracket attaches to the bottom of the camera via the slot. The fingers at the front hold a jeweller's eye loupe. I made the glob of silicone with food wrap across the camera's lens, pinched by the loupe with another piece of food wrap, both for bond breakers.

I have three loupes: 2.5x, 5x, and 10x. Not too much variation in results, except more vignetting at the higher powers, but not much depth of focus with any of them. These pics are in macro mode BTW.

Joe

All very nice, Joe. But no one was asking you about YOUR close shots, they were asking Groggy about HIS. And I am fairly certain no one was really looking for a technical answer. You weren't by chance an engineer in a previous life?

Originally Posted by Honorary Bloke

.......You weren't by chance an engineer in a previous life?

Ooooooooooooooo.......

Originally Posted by Groggy

I've turned now. I hope not Groggy

This was a small chunk, gnarly, Orange that I had no use for. Poor fella best see a Dr. have it removed

Then I noticed I had an old head, age bar, Make it a Plastic surgeon
who will apply some CA adhesive

and I needed out bar. Oxford Street has a few

This bit was too small for the job really Obviously never big enough

as I couldn't pare off the dimple from the end Here in is the reason Joe Greiner's lens would be good without making it too short.

Well, Groggy, I got a nastier reaction when, in my NESB ignorance, I described the part of England a colleague was coming from as "ah, you mean the knob in the middle". Never used the word since.

Thanks Joe, I was wondering if using a loupe would work. Notwithstanding others' negative comments and with my apologies for the diversion, your post was useful to me.

HB was right of course, I didn't think it was a serious question, but just in case - I turned to the camera's macro setting, zoomed the lens and turned on a lamp.

Here's a pic of my knock-out bar, made from a bit of Mulga and stainless rod that I had laying around, never did like the original one that came with the lathe. It was just a bit of rod with no handle on it and it was to short to even put a knob on it.

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No idea what finish I used on it either, back then when I made it, I would have been either just EEE, Danish Oil or Arboroil, never less it has retained its sheen well from constant use

Originally Posted by DJ's Timber

.......... never less it has retained its sheen well from constant use

Dj that could be cos you always have your hand on it

Originally Posted by Groggy

HB was right of course, I didn't think it was a serious question, but just in case - I turned to the camera's macro setting, zoomed the lens and turned on a lamp.

It actually was a serious question (surrounded by innuendo!) - when I photograph the wooden egges in macro mode the outer edge is always blurred as though the depth of field over that 20mm or so is unattainable - when I try to add extra light to get around it I end up with too many flares and reflections but you seem to have got around that - how???

(Rechecked for innuendo and double entendre - clean!)

This thread reminds me of an old joke
- about the Lone Ranger being disguised as a door and had his knob shot off!

I think the photographers use some sort of spray to take the shine off things but that would mask some of the wood grain detail too. My "professional" photographer friend has a big light difuser that is about 1 meter squarish. Kinda like a hanging light box. He also has proper flash pack and stuff. What you need is more light, but less direct. I have tried reflecting with stireen sheets or paper. You get a difused light rather than another shiny light reflection. (My friend photographs pottery and glass. And wood I think. So knows about shiny things.

That really is a knock-out bar, Groggy.

Seen from the right end (ahem), surely it's a push-in rod? That knocks out what it connects with?

Originally Posted by TTIT

It actually was a serious question (surrounded by innuendo!) - when I photograph the wooden egges in macro mode the outer edge is always blurred as though the depth of field over that 20mm or so is unattainable - when I try to add extra light to get around it I end up with too many flares and reflections but you seem to have got around that - how???

(Rechecked for innuendo and double entendre - clean!)

Sorry mate, in the middle of that lot the plot got lost! I use the zoom in macro mode to increase the depth of field. If you get too close it focuses on the nearest edge and the trailing parts fall out of focus, so I drop back a bit and zoom in, this seems to work.