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you could probably do that and get away with it.

just a thought, you can buy adapters for manual focus lenses to fit on your EOS mount for cheap, that work really well. I currently have screwmount, Contax/Yashica, Minolta manual focus, and a few others. Manual-focus macro lenses can be found for cheap. If you really want to get crazy, you can get an old macro bellows, mount it to your camera with a screwmount adapter, then mount a lens, macro or not, to the front of the bellows. I have done this with enlarger lenses to great success. The below were taken with a setup like that.

or if you have a lens in the 85-200mm range, preferably a prime, try using a reversing ring to mount your 28mm backwards on it. that’ll get you in really close. these were taken with that kind of setup.

mushroom:

sage leaf:

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I’ve been thinking about having my 20D converted to IR. hmm.

For a reasonably affordable semi-long fast prime, take a look at a used 200mm f/2.8L. I bought one this past fall from Japan for around $600. Good god, that thing is a joy to use.

[soosh]

I think it’d be cool to have votes for things like “most technically amazing” “most aethetically pleasing” and “best overall” but I’m not holding my breath or anything.

A return to the one-vote system would be my preference of likely scenarios.

[soosh]

good luck lokisbong.

on a personal note i got nothing for tonight. my stats must be totally screwed by now but i ceased to care. and am a better person for it. 🙂

definitely good luck to you, loki. If I had the money to lend you to keep you outta jail, I’d do it, but I’ve got $10 to last me a week.

If I’d known taking a few months off would screw me outta the FSM’s active lists, I probably wouldn’t have done it. I’ve got one for tonight, maybe more after work, maybe not.

[soosh]

Yeah I am still at a loss for this one. Every time I open a book around here the first line I see is dwarves fighting monsters Or some scifi line I have no idea how to translate to pictures. Or people on horses and there are none around here that I have found in at least 6 months and they were not being ridden. I really should have done this a long time ago and gone to the library nut the last three times I went by the library it was closed. DOH!

Circus peanuts & peeps, man.

[soosh]

I’ve got one similar to that, given to me by my grandmother. It has apertures of f-11 to f-32.

[soosh]

yeah, that’s what I thought.

[soosh]

can I get a judgement on this? is it enough parking lot or too much side of a building?

[soosh]

I can’t stand the recent versions of Ubuntu or Mint. I’ve been using Mint 10 now for a while and consider it to be a pretty good ubuntu-based distro.

[soosh]

it’s a really good thing that the nearest flea market is 900 miles away from me.

[soosh]

I’m really wanting the 35mm f/1.4 now.

So did I until they said they were releasing a 24/1.4 in a few weeks. MMmmmm…..

hmm. I’ve already got a sigma 20mm f/1.8 that’s crazy good for night shots. I still want the 35mm length in f/1.4.

[soosh]

wow, those long exposures really make for a fantasy sky. Hard to pick a favorite.

Was that fisheye one of these, by any chance? They’re sold under several brand names…neat thing about them is that they’re marketed as EF-S, but function on EF mounts…

that’s the very one.

I’m really wanting the 35mm f/1.4 now.

[soosh]

By any chance, did you get the 85mm or 800mm?

I did get the 85mm f/1.4. It’s pretty awesome.

[soosh]

I was bummed that I’d used my favorite bus shot already in a B&W contest.
http://sacredartichoke.com/coppermine/albums/11-14-2006/normal_img_8868.jpg

Nice, reminds me of:

he certainly smelled like grain alcohol.

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I was bummed that I’d used my favorite bus shot already in a B&W contest.

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