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ecniv
12-09-2009, 20:25
...Would you go for cheap (and poss nasty) from ebay to try it out, or try for AF extension rings at a higher price...?

Has anyone got some who could take a macro of a stamp or something then put the extension ring on and retake?

If you had to have one size extension which would be better? larger (10mm upwards?)
cowasaki
12-09-2009, 20:27
If you want to try a cheap set of rings then make a donation of £6 to TP and I will lob a set in the post to you !
cowasaki
17-09-2009, 14:29
The mods have confirmed the donation. I am in bed at the moment with some bug but I will have to crawl out of bed tomorrow no matter what or we will run out of food. I will post it then for you and hopefully you should get it on Saturday.
ecniv
17-09-2009, 15:23
Thanks. Don't worry about it if you are ill. Can wait a bit longer. Just got a 50mm f1.4 for the other half to play with. Very nice so far:)
cowasaki
17-09-2009, 15:26
Thanks. Don't worry about it if you are ill. Can wait a bit longer. Just got a 50mm f1.4 for the other half to play with. Very nice so far:)

I have vouchers for £75 off an SB900 or AFS 70-300 and £50 off the AFS 50f1.4 I am just deciding which one to get :) I really fancy the f1.4 but I have the 1.8 already and I have an SB600+800 so think I might have to go for the 70-300. Really want the f1.4 though.
ecniv
17-09-2009, 17:49
I will post a few pics soon - some for flickr too :)

Do you know how to set the bracketing on a D300?
I reassigned the button for bracketing to the ae-l/af-l. But it doesn't seem to flag the camera like the manual says - just curious really as I haven't been able to get it going since the beginning.
Wail
17-09-2009, 23:27
Press the button (the one assigned to bracketing) and then rotate the front dial to activate it. The rear dial is to set the steps for bracketing! I think that's it.
ecniv
18-09-2009, 21:21
50mm Lens f1.4D... (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/_DSC7746.jpg)
200 mm old lens (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/_DSC7747.jpg)

Shot one of the instructions f1.4 no flash (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/_DSC7792.jpg) and with flash f8 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/_DSC7795.jpg)

Oh tried the bracketing - thank you :) worked
ecniv
22-09-2009, 07:33
Just to let you know that the posty has the tubes. But hopefully I can pick em up tomorrow :)
ecniv
23-09-2009, 10:05
Got em :)

gonna try n post pics later
ecniv
23-09-2009, 20:30
Ok had a play...

By no means easy, may be the 200mm is slightly soft, but still sharper than the 18-200 vr... Weird ;)

Anyway added the extensions.. all of them.

Wasn't too bad... think I still need to tweak the settings a bit on the focus point on the 200mm (just flashes when close to focus)...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/_DSC7944_sml.jpg
f8 with flash

and for a comparison the 105mm macro
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/_DSC7946_sml.jpg


and the set up:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/th_P1020786.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/P1020786.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/th_P1020785.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/P1020785.jpg)
These are the 105mm macro

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/th_P1020783.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/P1020783.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/th_P1020784.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/P1020784.jpg)
These are the 200mm plus ext
ecniv
23-09-2009, 20:31
Limited to six pics... so here is the last - 200mm plus ext
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ecniv/D300/_DSC7941_sml.jpg
f8 on lens - no flash

Thanks to cowasaki for the extensions. Brilliant for trialling...
Now I just have to justify the 200 mm by getting focus right and taking some good pics :)