On 14/08/07, Leon Altoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I have a friend who has a Canon 300D and I would like to try to help him > improve his macro photos of really small objects - down to approximately > 3mm in length. > > He currently has a Canon 100 mm f2.8 macro and a Canon ring flash. The > problem is that the subject - generally live marine animals in about 1cm > of water - in the resulting images is not large enough to blow up to a > usable size. > > I'm willing to take Canon specific suggestions as well as general macro > suggestions, but I don't know what is available for Canons in terms of > macro equipment, and it needs to work with his ring flash. I'll even > accept the address of another forum dealing with Canon macro photography > (Is there one?) or suggestion from Cotty on how to graft good Pentax > optics on to the Canon body. > > All help from those who tread the dark path (and I know you are out > there) will be greatfully accepted.
Firstly a TC will buy you magnification without reducing working distance and Canon have a special 5:1 ratio macro lens, I think Cotty may have one?: http://www.vividlight.com/articles/2914.htm Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
