A treat for the nature lovers

[V6GTO]

Silver-studded Blue (rare in the UK...about the size of a finger nail)

Male




Female




Underside




Martin.

Edited by V6GTO on Saturday 23 June 16:33

[stigmundfreud]

lovely!

what kit you used there?

[poah]

100-400 L plus extention tubes IIRC

[stigmundfreud]

was gonna say it must have soem good fast focus on it (I rely on auto mainly due to my myopic sight )

Lovely quality from them

[V6GTO]

Poah is correct on numbers 3 & 4 (manual focus), the others were with a Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro (auto focus).

Martin.

Edited by V6GTO on Saturday 23 June 19:06

[stigmundfreud]

quite a few quid on that 100 f2.8?

[V6GTO]

stigmundfreud said:

quite a few quid on that 100 f2.8?

Currently £329 in Warehouse Express...I dare say it can be had cheeper. I think Canon could have painted a red ring around the end and called it an L...it's that good.

Martin.

[stigmundfreud]

oooooh

no must resist, i'm not spending on yet another I've got enough for what I need!

[V6GTO]

Better still...for £75 you can get a set of Jessops extension tubes that will fit all your lenses.

Martin.

[poah]

V6GTO said:

Better still...for £75 you can get a set of Jessops extension tubes that will fit all your lenses.

Martin.

not efs ones lol

[bramley]

Is it possible to quantify the effect these things have on min focussing distance? Tempted to get some at that price, and intrigued to know what it would do to my 70-200. Min focussing distance is 1.4m

[nick_bbb]

These photos are stunning Martin, colours are so rich

[V6GTO]

bramley said:

Is it possible to quantify the effect these things have on min focussing distance? Tempted to get some at that price, and intrigued to know what it would do to my 70-200. Min focussing distance is 1.4m

They (12mm+21mm+31mm) take the 100-400 from 1.8M to about 2 feet...this is full frame, but bare in mind these butterflies are about the size of my thumb nail.



Martin.

Edited by V6GTO on Saturday 23 June 22:56

[Mr Noble]

Lovely matey.

[rich 36]

hmmmmmmm



grrr