Small Bug Macro

Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 29 July 2008 in Animal & Insect.

Macro Filter Test 3

I was hoping to review blogs and respond to comments yesterday but I just didn't make it. Today perhaps?

This shot is another taken with the +10 macro filter. Note that this shot and yesterday's shot were hand held in available light without flash. Of course I braced the camera for these shots but these were the very first shots I tried after finding that the filters had arrived, so I hadn't yet progressed to using flash. I quickly discovered that even braced, shots at these kinds of shutter speed and aperture combinations are not going to yield the image quality I'm looking for.

MS said yesterday that I'd hit a technical limit. Now, that may be true, but I don't think the limit can be judged from these two images, at these slow shutter speeds. Tomorrow's image is a different story --there I'll think you'll find the evidence supporting MS's prescient judgment. I'm also inclined to think that the +10 filter is beset by the greatest amount of distortion, though I haven't yet tried enough shots with the lower magnification filters to make any kind of comparison.

BTW, this bug was very small. I doubt whether its eyes were any more than about 1/16 of an inch apart --or about 1.5 mm.

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