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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG Amanita muscaria
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:04:49 +1300
Mike Ussher and Chuck Norcutt wrote 

> Strikes me as a lot of unnecessary work... both in mounting the modified
> lens to a bellows and taking >20 exposures at different focus distances. 
>   With an unmodified 35mm lens you can get from 1.7 feet to infinity in 4
> exposures with focus at 2, 3, 6 and 12 feet.  You can even get slightly
> under 1 foot for the closest distance but you'd need at least 1 more
> exposure and maybe 2.  Heck, with focus at 11.1 feet you can get from 5.6
> feet to infinity in 1 shot.
> 
> 20 exposures?  What are they doing.  Focusing on a fly on the front 
> element with the background sharp and at infinity?
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/10/2012 10:56 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Very nice indeed.  How close does that lens focus?  Reminds me of some
> > "macro landscapes" I have seen.  Someone dissected the mount of a Z.
> > 35/2.8 and mounted it on a bellows so that it it still focused at
> > infinity.  They then focused at infinity and moved the cam back on the
> > bellows so that the lens was stationary and focused stacked >20 shots. 
> > It was a startling effect and the technique did work well. Mike

This reminds me of the approach to this topic that my some-time deceased 
professional (Forest Research) friend Harold Heimke-Hemming would have 
adopted.

Mount an ?80mm (or whatever - I don't have a 'Blad) lens on his Hasselblad, 
get back far enough that everything required was tack sharp at, say f/8, take 
the shot, then later crop out the  unwanted stuff ... :-)

Simple, quick, and excellent results !!

Brian Swale
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