Macro safari shots June so far

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Lovely finds Alf, 1st 2 are the best imo.
 
Fantastic picture as always. Always fascinating to see these small beasties in so much detail.
 
Very nice what magnification can you get to with your SIGMA 105mm F2.8 MACRO? I thought that it was only 1:1 but you seem to be getting better than that.
Does it auto focus?
I just wish someone could photograph ants without getting so much reflection (my shots have the same).
 
As ever, all great. I've never seen a scorpion fly or a lace hopper.
As kids we used to call the red spider mites "God's cows " over here. Don't know why
Haven't seen one of them since I was a kid.
Love these, great shooting
Scorpion flies are not that common here, I have only ever seen them on bigger nature reserves not my local park.
 
Lovely finds Alf, 1st 2 are the best imo.

Thanks Graham
I have some of those bee shots to show

Fantastic picture as always. Always fascinating to see these small beasties in so much detail.

Thanks Gil

I am bias and the lacehopper definitely is my fav:) Think it is a Cixius nervosus

I would have geussed that as your fave rhanks Icy for the ID too

As ever, all great. I've never seen a scorpion fly or a lace hopper.
As kids we used to call the red spider mites "God's cows " over here. Don't know why
Haven't seen one of them since I was a kid.
Love these, great shooting

Thanks Derek
I regularly see scorpion flies I even saw one in the garden lacehoppers are small and harder to spot

Very nice what magnification can you get to with your SIGMA 105mm F2.8 MACRO? I thought that it was only 1:1 but you seem to be getting better than that.
Does it auto focus?
I just wish someone could photograph ants without getting so much reflection (my shots have the same).

Scorpion flies are not that common here, I have only ever seen them on bigger nature reserves not my local park.

I use a 25mm extension tube almost permenantly on the sigma and a Raynox 250 that I clip on when I feel the need I would need to check but that is about 8mm across the frame on M4/3
 
I use a 25mm extension tube almost permenantly on the sigma and a Raynox 250 that I clip on when I feel the need I would need to check but that is about 8mm across the frame on M4/3

Is it a lot of hassle to clip the Raynox on the front? Do you ever miss shots? I use 2 Cannon cameras one with the 60 mm and one with 65mm to take a range of sizes.
It is not always ideal, depending on how far I have to travel and the MPE 65mm is quite heavy.
With the extension tube can you still focus to infinity?
 
Is it a lot of hassle to clip the Raynox on the front? Do you ever miss shots? I use 2 Cannon cameras one with the 60 mm and one with 65mm to take a range of sizes.
It is not always ideal, depending on how far I have to travel and the MPE 65mm is quite heavy.
With the extension tube can you still focus to infinity?
It is like clipping a lens cap on/off.
No it does not focus at infinity with the tube but you make choices.
 
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It is like clipping a lens cap on/off.
No it does not focus at infinity with the tube but you make choices.
I look forward to the day where a macro lens can focus to infinity and go 5x +, possibly the size of market might stop this from happening.
 
Olympus did at least 7 macro lenses for the OM system plus belies tubes and an adjustable length tube some of the lenses were very specialist now they do 2 lenses and no tubes
Only Canon do a 5X mag lens macro is not well catered for in the digital era
I look forward to the day where a macro lens can focus to infinity and go 5x +, possibly the size of market might stop this from happening.
 
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Olympus did at least 7 macro lenses for the OM system plus belies tubes and an adjustable length tube some of the lenses were very specialist now they do 2 lenses and no tubes
Only Canon do a 5X mag lens macro is not well catered for in the digital era
Sadly you are right, I think that the problem is the lack of the market rather than it not being technically possible (I could be wrong).
 
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