Originally posted by Beepaitch Woah!
I would love to see a quick snap of the setup if possible.
My pleasure. Just took a quick & dirty snap of my setup out in the garage.
What we have is a wooden copy stand made out of 1x3" lumber, with a platform made from an old chopping board.
Underneath I have an LED light shining up through the blue lid of a coffee can.
On the platform I have the base from an old Zeiss microscope which allows me very fine focussing down to the micron level.
I collect the snowflakes on a old 8x10 picture frame glass, which I lay on the arms I added to the microscope base.
The K3 is attached to a Soligor focusing rail which I use for coarse focusing with different lenses. I run the HDMI output from liveview to an old monitor for a bigger view.
Currently I have mounted a Componon-S 50mm F2.8 enlarging lens reverse stacked on a Pentax-M 200mm F4. That combination gives me an FOV of approx. 6 x 4mm. Using the 10X microscope objective on the extension tubes gets me down to approx. 2.25 x 1.5mm.
My plan for this year is to try out various lenses combination, and lighting setups to get the perfect shot … well I can hope
Hope that helps.
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Originally posted by Gorgarath Lovely shots. Though, as I get older, I find myself liking snowflakes less and less. On their own, they're not so bad, but when they bring a couple billion of their friends to visit for half the year...
I couldn't agree more
Photographing them is much more preferable to shovelling them. They can be a real pain, but every now and then I capture a stunning beauty like this one and all is forgiven....