Comments for Adventures in Wonderland http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle There is another way of putting this. But I forgot it. - Pier Giorgio DiCicco Tue, 07 May 2013 01:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 <![CDATA[Comment on Crawling around the back yard by Richard Wintle]]> http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/2013/05/03/441/#comment-2889 Tue, 07 May 2013 01:50:59 +0000 http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/?p=441#comment-2889 And Sting wearing a winged thong *shudder*.

]]> <![CDATA[Comment on My old new little friend – the Voigtländer VF-101 by Richard Wintle]]> http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/2013/05/06/my-old-new-little-friend-the-voigtlander-vf-101/#comment-2888 Tue, 07 May 2013 01:48:52 +0000 http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/?p=438#comment-2888 Thank you sir.

St. Andrew’s isn’t near Sudbury – it’s in what is now King Township, just north of Toronto. Sudbury’s about 4 hours’ drive to the north. This kind of field-stone construction is fairly common around here though… some nice examples at the Camera On King blog.

No Finnish community around here as far as I know – that church would have been built primarily by Scots Methodists I believe. I’d never heard this about Sudbury though, interesting. Maybe Finnish immigrants bringing mining expertise?

]]> <![CDATA[Comment on Crawling around the back yard by John Gilbey]]> http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/2013/05/03/441/#comment-2887 Mon, 06 May 2013 22:46:13 +0000 http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/?p=441#comment-2887 Nah. If it was something out of Dune you’d get portentous quasi-pomp rock musical accompaniment… :-)

]]> <![CDATA[Comment on My old new little friend – the Voigtländer VF-101 by Mike]]> http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/2013/05/06/my-old-new-little-friend-the-voigtlander-vf-101/#comment-2885 Mon, 06 May 2013 21:41:12 +0000 http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/?p=438#comment-2885 Looking good, Richard! Graveyards + B&W = win!
The St Andrew’s Church scene looks surprisingly Finnish. Is it anywhere near Sudbury? I’ve heard, from an old buddy working at Laurentian, that there was a Finnish (sauna) Ghetto there in years gone by.

Now, be a good boy and go and watch Scarface.

]]> <![CDATA[Comment on A New Angle of View by My old new little friend – the Voigtländer VF-101 | Adventures in Wonderland]]> http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/2012/01/13/a-new-angle-of-view/#comment-2882 Mon, 06 May 2013 17:21:49 +0000 http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/?p=96#comment-2882 [...] in the viewfinder line up. This is a step up from the distance-scale focusing of my Silette and Brillant, where you either guess at (“estimate”) the distance to the subject and dial it in, or [...]

]]> <![CDATA[Comment on Crawling around the back yard by cromercrox]]> http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/2013/05/03/441/#comment-2874 Sat, 04 May 2013 20:03:01 +0000 http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/?p=441#comment-2874 You didn’t put a scale bar on the earthworm photo. This is worrying. They could really be something out of Dune.

]]> <![CDATA[Comment on Crawling around the back yard by Richard Wintle]]> http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/2013/05/03/441/#comment-2872 Sat, 04 May 2013 17:00:17 +0000 http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/?p=441#comment-2872 Thanks, John. I do have a set of “dumb” (i.e. no electronic contacts) extension tubes which I’ve used before with mixed success – just need more practice I think. Combining with the reversing ring is an excellent idea. :)

]]> <![CDATA[Comment on Crawling around the back yard by John Gilbey]]> http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/2013/05/03/441/#comment-2870 Sat, 04 May 2013 08:41:05 +0000 http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/?p=441#comment-2870 Nice image.

Unless you want to spring for a dedicated macro lens – I did eventually and have never regretted it for a second – a reversing ring is a very good option. Cheap, small, light, portable and doesn’t have any glass to detract from the optical performance of the prime lens. A 50/1.8 is a good choice – MUCH better, almost infinitely better – than a kit zoom… Screw in macro lenses, also called close-up lenses, have an optical performance that ranges from “Ho, Hum…” to “OK” depending on how much you spend, but at least you don’t have the camera lens off the body and risk getting dust on the sensor…

For real fun, add bellows or extension tubes and get the magnification up to around 5X – still with the reversing ring – for some really weird garden safaris!

Enjoy…

]]> <![CDATA[Comment on Crawling around the back yard by Richard Wintle]]> http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/2013/05/03/441/#comment-2869 Sat, 04 May 2013 02:51:43 +0000 http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/?p=441#comment-2869 Ta.

I thought about diopter filters – I know Canon (and probably Nikon) makes them, as well as non-camera brands (Tiffen, Polaroid, many others probably – example here). An easy way to get into this as no weird parts (extension tubes, reversing rings) are required. Raynox is another brand that makes screw-on macro filters – I’ve seen very good results with those. See here.

The reversing ring is by far the cheapest method, provided you have a lens you can adjust aperture on manually. The beauty of this is that it can be *any* lens with front threads that match the size of the ring – the brand doesn’t matter, because you don’t use the lens mount for anything. I think my reversing ring was $2.99 with free shipping.

]]> <![CDATA[Comment on Crawling around the back yard by rpg]]> http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/2013/05/03/441/#comment-2867 Fri, 03 May 2013 21:01:56 +0000 http://occamstypewriter.org/wintle/?p=441#comment-2867 Lovely photos, Richard.

Just today at work we were discussing cameras, and a colleague mentioned he had a macro *filter*—something I might have to track down and try out…

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