[rgknief60]

Found those little cuties in my garden...

Nice! Haven't seen that variety before. Wonder what a 180mm's angle of view on this subject looks like.

[Canada_Rockies]

Fiddling with the trailer, getting it ready to go to my favorite birding sites, found this charming, but ill, lady crawling on the carpet. (I did say I was getting it ready - which includes cleaning the carpet.) I saw her on the inside of the curtains while replacing a level, and fetched the K-3 and 100 macro. Both shots hand held using Catch In Focus. First at ISO 800, second at ISO 3200.

The second shot is on the paving in the carport after I lifted her out of the trailer. I think she got trapped in the trailer the day before. She certainly was dragging herself around, and made no attempt whatsoever to fly. I left her be, and have not seen her since.

[ffking]

By chance I just posted a macro shot on Flickr when this popped up, so why not? Holly Blue butterfly -Pentax-F 100mm 1:2.8 macro

[Jean Poitiers]

Shallow DoF attempt with D FA Macro 100/2.8 WR on K-1 ... xpost

[Jean Poitiers]

End of month efforts with my Single Challenges lens ... the SMC D FA Macro 100/2.8 WR and the 3 images are with a Kenko Pz-AF Uniplus Tube 25 added ... (x-post from K-1 thread)

[mohb]

smc PENTAX-D FA 100mm F2.8
Tree bumblebee

[WPRESTO]

The same species of 17-year cicada as the one posted above by dcshooter. It was lying dead along a trail.

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[ivanvernon]

A group of "straggler" periodic cicadas from a 17 year brood have been emerging 4 years early here in the DC area.

K-1, Tokina AT-X 90mm f/2.5 "Bokina" w/ matched 1:1 adapter:

Nice. The AT-X 90 is one of my favorite lens although I do not have the extension adapter. I have been using it mostly for close-up but not really macro shots. Still looking for another of my favorite lenses. :>)

[Canada_Rockies]

Nice. The AT-X 90 is one of my favorite lens although I do not have the extension adapter. I have been using it mostly for close-up but not really macro shots. Still looking for another of my favorite lenses. :>)

A 50 mm extension tube will give you 1:1 -- that's what the adapter is, after all.

[rgknief60]

A group of "straggler" periodic cicadas from a 17 year brood have been emerging 4 years early here in the DC area.

Nice!

The same species of 17-year cicada as the one posted above by dcshooter.

Good subject for focus stacking!

Don't have images to post of the straggler, but if you are interested to know a bit more about what is believed
to trigger early emergence, this website has a lot of information about the subject and the various broods.


2012 Cicada just after it emerged

[pepperberry farm]

[WPRESTO]

Good subject for focus stacking!

I did this stack of an annual cicada back in July, 2013 (it wast posted on PF back then). The one I posted above was in the field, far from home, hand-held on a drizzly day. Maybe I could have pulled off a stack, but holding a camera in one hand, the cicada in the other I do not think the results would have been acceptable.

[Canada_Rockies]

No, it's not. It actually has corrective optics in it.

Interesting.

[WPRESTO]

Interesting.

FYI: When the Tokina 90mm macro and it's 1:1 adapter were introduced, they were tested by the photo magazines of the day. At least one found that at 1/2 life size - the maximum without the adapter and the minimum with the adapter - the resolution was actually better after the adapter was fitted (= 1:2 was better with the adapter than without).

[Canada_Rockies]

FYI: When the Tokina 90mm macro and it's 1:1 adapter were introduced, they were tested by the photo magazines of the day. At least one found that at 1/2 life size - the maximum without the adapter and the minimum with the adapter - the resolution was actually better after the adapter was fitted (= 1:2 was better with the adapter than without).

That's amazing.