philzucker
Active Member
Spring is still coming very slow here in Germany, but the insects at least start appearing. Here four from today, taken in my garden:
1. Fly:
2. Sawfly:
3. Hoverfly:
4. And last a very pesky and very tiny (about 2mm) young aphid - very severe crop, not up to the standard of the other three, but at least enough detail to get a good look at it:
All taken hand held with the OM 90mm macro + 1.4 TC on an OM-1. All taken at 1/250s, the Hoverfly at f7.1, the other three at f5.0 (fully open with the TC). I used AF-C, and that was very helpful in the somewhat windy conditions to get the insects on the swaying leaves sharp. Keeper rate and working distance with this combo was again very nice indeed.
Phil
1. Fly:
2. Sawfly:
3. Hoverfly:
4. And last a very pesky and very tiny (about 2mm) young aphid - very severe crop, not up to the standard of the other three, but at least enough detail to get a good look at it:
All taken hand held with the OM 90mm macro + 1.4 TC on an OM-1. All taken at 1/250s, the Hoverfly at f7.1, the other three at f5.0 (fully open with the TC). I used AF-C, and that was very helpful in the somewhat windy conditions to get the insects on the swaying leaves sharp. Keeper rate and working distance with this combo was again very nice indeed.
Phil