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12-JUL-2005

Contraption

You can see the beetle on the window....check out the 'hairy beetle' shot. Interesting that you can still get good images using older equipment with the newer digital SLRs. The bellows is an old Nikon PB-6, the lens is a manual lens I picked up on eBay. It's a 'Lester A. Dine' macro lens made by Kiron primarily for dental use, and I believe came in either Nikon and Canon mounts. It's a great 105mm f2.8 lens that does 1:1 reproductions. The flash is an old Spiratone Ring Flash that I bought from my friend Tim Koverman, also on eBay. It has an auto mode that sometimes proves useful. The camera body is a Nikon D70.

I have to do a lot of fidgeting to get the exposure correct, but luckily, with reasonably static subjects, I'm often able to get off a few shots before they decide to move on.

Sony Cybershot
1/640s f/3.5 at 20.0mm iso100 hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time12-Jul-2005 13:14:11
MakeSony
ModelCybershot
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length20 mm
Exposure Time1/640 sec
Aperturef/3.5
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias-1.00
White BalanceD65 (21)
Metering Modecenter weighted (2)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

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