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I guess spelling wasn’t a prerequisite back in 1892

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There are a coulpe of ways to get the same magnification settings with nikon. The MP-E 65 is basicaly just a bellows system put on a lens.

The thing is that the MP-E is optimized for shooting at high magnification. I’ve done some high mag stuff other ways and the results haven’t ever looked as good. There are some Nikon optics that could maybe give comparable results on a bellows (Ultra-Micro Nikkors and stuff), but they’re rare and expensive. Nikon used to make some *seriously* hard-core macro gear back in the day (take a look at this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270835456131?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649) but they don’t any more, sadly 🙁

I didn’t mean to sound like I was trivializing the MP-E 65 I love the shots I am able to get with it and it is well worth the money if you are into shooting macro.

I was using the PB 6 bellows with the F100 an extension ring and a reversing ring with the 60 mm f2.8 micro lens when I was shooting nikon gear. I was able to use the D100 with this set up but I wouldn’t know if you could use it with the newer DSLR’s. I think my GF sold my extension rings but I think I still have the 60mm, the reversing ring and the PB 6 bellows. She will probably be putting the rest of my nikon gear on ebay when she decides to buy some new furniture.

Here are some links that used to help set up older micro gear on the nikon cameras.

http://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/900/~/using-the-pb-6-bellows-focusing-unit-with-a-nikon-d-slr

http://www.phidelity.com/blog/photography/nikon-macro-phototography-resource-page/

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I wish Nikon had an equivalent to that lens. Everything I see out of it is amazing.

There are a coulpe of ways to get the same magnification settings with nikon. The MP-E 65 is basicaly just a billows system put on a lens. You could get an older nikon bellows, I was using the PB 6 when I was shooting slides. Novoflex makes a Reverse Lens Adapter for canon, so I would think they make them for nikon too.

Or you could just do the sane and easy thing by switching over to canon. j/k 😆 or am I.

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aspidites, what’s going on in your rainbow bubble shot? That’s very fractal-esque – I like it.

It was an oil and water mixture in a glass ashtray that I shot with a MP-E 65mm with dual flash set on opposite sides of the ashtray.

I forgot…I got the color by putting a cd-rom under the ashtray. Depending how I angled the flashes would give me different colors.

This was taken the same night

Link to Bigger
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i447/aspidites2001/Pictures/_MG_9407_fark-1.jpg

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aspidites, what’s going on in your rainbow bubble shot? That’s very fractal-esque – I like it.

It was an oil and water mixture in a glass ashtray that I shot with a MP-E 65mm with dual flash set on opposite sides of the ashtray.

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elsewise we’d have a thread of nothing but balls

heh heh… BALLS… heh

Balls? check!

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Is that roundish enough not to be a moon? 😯

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Congrats to orionid and ravnostic this week.

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I like 3,2,5,4 in that order the best.

4 would probably be in the second spot but that white blob pulls my attention away, but that is probably my ocd kicking in.

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Hi y’all I’m jan. queenbee suggested I start trying farktogrophy. So I threw one in.

Welcome aboard. Like your view of the bridge. That looks like it would be an interesting angle at night.

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Not unless you took them yourself 😉

I asked for a copy of the mug shots, but they said no. Guess I’ll have to wait for them to show up on the smoking gun. I knew I should have worn my “I love midget porn” tee shirt.

/Turn to the right.

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Only have one B for this one.

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i447/aspidites2001/Pictures/_MG_7802_Fark.jpg

unless I can use my mug shots….keep forgetting we live in a police state now.

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I agree that they’re crap, ennui. I think some people just like things specifically because the majority doesn’t – art hipsters, if you will.

Take the “artist” who did all the splatter paintings (Jackson Pollock, is it? I’m not really an art guy.). If he can con others into believing it’s valuable art and make money off it, then more power to him. I think art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and like they say about pornography, while I can’t define art, I know it when I see it and IMO that ain’t it.

But if the pretentious hipster crowd thinks it is and wants to throw their money at him, eh, what do I care, it’s not like they were gonna throw it at me instead.

I would have to say you hit it right on the head. A lot of times it isn’t about the quality of the photography that turns someone into a pro, it is the ability to market the pictures to the public.

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nice poem

Would this be considered out of the box?

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i447/aspidites2001/Pictures/_MG_7813.jpg

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So, I am doing a little research on the ole Wikipedia looking for ideas and I am now compelled to ask: the idea of this theme is Hard Infrastructure, correct?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure#.22Hard.22_versus_.22soft.22_infrastructure

Roads, railroads, power lines, aqueducts, that sort of thing are the intended subjects rather than government buildings or banks, that sort of thing?

So is anything listed on that wiki page fair game for this week? Or is it limited in some way?

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