K100D Macro.

greengiant · 4 Jan 2007 at 21:32

K100D Macro: Old Processor

A Couple of macros taken with my K100D with 18-55mm lens with +2 and +4 close up filter attached:

Wee lump of silion chip: f/16, 0.5S, +2 and +4 filter.

An attempt at an arty close up:

Quite surprised at how these turned out, better than I had expected seeing as the 18-55mm isn't a macro lens.

More light on the subjects would have helped as this would have given shorter exposures, I suppose I could have upped the iso slightly, but the pics look sharp?

100% crop of the processor:

Slight unsharp masking, 1.0pix, 50%, 0 threshold.

Critique / suggestions welcome!

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Brian

Scam · 4 Jan 2007 at 21:45

Very cool. What filters exactly are they? How do they work?

greengiant · 4 Jan 2007 at 21:49

Scam said:
Very cool. What filters exactly are they? How do they work?

Basically they are like little magnifying lenses which you can screw into the filter end of the lens, allowing you to focus closer than normal.

clockworks · 5 Jan 2007 at 00:10

What make are those magnifying filters? I'm thinking about getting some for my K100D.
I assume that you used a tripod. I took some closeups with the 18-55 at the weekend, at 8 seconds f32 ISO100, using the 2 second self-timer. Came out sharp, but not as close as I would like.