More results from the reversed Q 03 fish-eye on my KP. I'm posting this on all three threads where I've been talking about this; "Reversed 03 fish-eye on KP", "Pentax Q mount macro reverse rings", and "Macro by any means necessary club."
Camera is tripod mounted on a focus rail. Electronic shutter with 12 second self timer for shooting, existing light using a diffused Ikea Jansjo light.
First some more "indutrial" targets. Printed number on a lens barrel:
Printing on a business card:
The edges of some small manilla envelopes:
Still industrial, but not mechanical. Multigrain bread...
and the surface of one of the seeds on the top of the bread.
Some closeup bug bits.
Our first subject, an unfortunate shield bug (?), which I found dead in a corner of the bedroom, under some stuff.
Here's the whole insect:
And a close-up of its eye:
Our second contestant is a cast-off cicada husk:
Some of its bits. The business end of one of its digging claws:
And spines at the (wrist? elbow??) joint of the same limb:
An adult cicada (found deceased).
A close-up of one of its eyes:
Because of the very limited depth of field, reversing the Q 03 fish-eye might best be used with flat subjects. More three dimensional subjects move out of the limited plane of focus very quickly in either direction; image quality is such that it might not be worth the trouble of stacking, though I'll let those who actually do focus stacking (of which I am not, as yet, one) decide this for themselves. I don't think this optic is a hidden gem that's going to take the photomacrography world by storm. That said, it is fun to play with and makes for a comparatively compact rig for high magnification shooting. If I'm feeling particularly optimistic (or masochistic) I might even try it in the field once weather is warmer.