wonder if little smudge or dust on front element will affect IQ?

owh... i most takut lens with back element that will move in and out during zooming, always vacuum dusts into the inner parts. my lens is naked at the front no money buy good quality UV filter (too cheapstake haha, end up putting the hood on 100% of the time, incase something bump into it)

didn't know that

i takut to use my micro fibre cloth anymore after using it for like half year, scare the dusts will gather on it and makes the cleaning worse by introducing more dusts on it. worst case is scratching the coating.

yeah, those on mirror can be blow away easily and won't really annoy shooting but those that went into the prism will become really kacau since they wont go away.

Hope you guys don't mind me posting pics over here (canon thread is pretty unactive and no macro guy inside also).

Housefly is really an easy subject for macro, they aren't very alert and large in size so you don't need something with really high magnification to take their pictures.


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Don't halau me keluar

haha i don't care so much about gear one

Nikon thread = Macro thread already liao right?

hehe then i think i will spam my future macro shots here than canon thread.

got really excited while shooting during this evening, then suddenly my flashgun's batteries died

i dropped the wide angle diffuser and sticked a layer or paper on the flash head before using the ocotobox, the lighting does improve though

really envy you guys got macro lens, i can only shoot with my 50mm reverse handheld, don't know when will be the day i drop the lens and killed it

awesome shot as usual, but the WB is abit too yellow to me?

i tried finding those tubes before, but many shops only sell the expensive electronic ones. do you know any shop that sells them? currently saving for tamron 90mm vc macro lens, i takut keep using the dof preview then remove the lens will damage the contacts one day.

still need to plan about my budget, since even if i am going to buy the lens, it will be next year's mid or end. haha i don't shoot at f16, f8 or something gives me enough amount of dof already on a 50mm lens + 1.6x crop sensor.

will check there then, since my last visit to gs only returned me results of electronic's ones.

eh got say like that meh?

i thought aperture value = amount of light the lens can let through? focal length doesn't matter at all. look through your viewfinder and you know, a f2.8 lens gives u bright view and a f5.6 lens gives you a dark view.

don't need to learn into so detailed la, you won't need these infos also when shooting.

wait until u see the Bigma.



200-500mm f2.8 zoom

Any idea what are these?


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haha okay thanks a lot. that yellow bug is quite big in real life, i wanted to capture a side profile of it, but I bumped into my flash stand and my speedlite dropped and smacked the bug about the 2nd shot, it's some kind of "shit" looking bug that's everywhere around Kari Leaves. looks really weird.

more pics


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haha thanks a lot. I've heard you saying about that before, so I approach them really slowly. Surprisingly, they didn't care about my presence at all, as I reverse my lens, the distance between my lens and the subject is only few cm, but I managed to take tons of pictures of them from different angles. They will get scared by flash, but they will return to the same spot after flying away for few seconds. macro is really fun since you can learn about how specific bug behaves

EDIT: Updated with today's shot using Tammy 70-200


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This post has been edited by mingyuyu: Dec 18 2013, 08:11 PM

that shop is trustable i think, i dealt with him before.

you can call him to check anyways. mind you, the shop doesn't allow you to test the camera for fun unless you already decided to buy it and want to test before paying.

i mean for some larger shops, you can go there and ask for them to let you test specific camera (try shoot some pics, play with the settings etc). but that shop doesn't allow you to do so since it is a small shop and doesn't have any units on display also.

I think they had almost every famous nikon models ever made? not sure if can test every camera though, most of the time i went in there just to drool at Nikon gears then leave.

lightroom is easier to use, photoshop is more complicated but can do really precise things