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I've had so much better luck with them when there's a cooler-than-usual morning, or right after a rainstorm, in either case as close to sunrise as possible. They're a little slower because they need to warm their blood up. If you wait until mid-day when they're warmed up, they are too skittish and fast because they are able to be.

That, and my love of photographing flowers that nature has decorated with water drops are responsible for my weird morning habits... cool and/or wet, I'm out the door at sunrise.

What's that saying? The early bird gets the monarch?
 
Those are really great. I love the bokeh. Thanks so much for sharing.

Dave
 
Been looking for that lens the Tokina AT-X lens even posted in the WTB section on craiglist for that lens, with no luck
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E.J.W
 
Tesselator said:
Jerry_JMK said:
Just use a fine manual focus old piece of macro glass on your m43 ;-)
I used a Tokina ATX 90mm f2.5 and a Canon 200mm f4 macro.

Gave me these results.
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Yup! I got these out of a $200 Zeiss 45mm f2.8 and the 7.5mm extension tube it was originally sold with:

More here: http://tesselator.gpmod.com/Zeiss_Tessar_45mm_f2.8_Pancake - It's a tiny little pancake lens and OooOOoo so sharp!

Good advice! Thanks for the thread!
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Wow, wonderful images with that Zeiss!! Great job.
 
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