Good season for Micro-Nikkor 60mm. (pic)

JP Scherrer · Aug 28, 2003

First dead leave of the year...

Fuji S2 Pro + Micro-Nikkor 60mm. f2.8 + on-board flash
ORG-ORG-OFF - 1:125 @ f32 - ISO 100

Post-process: slightly cropped - resized (10% steps) - saturation +10 - USM 250,0.3,0
Any comment ?

Cheers,
Jean-Pierre
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DEJ · Aug 28, 2003

"I like it", gotta have that lens or the 105mm Micro???
The many post of Yves and your post using this lens make it a winner
How did you get the black background?
Regards
dej

J-P. Scherrer said:
First dead leave of the year...

Fuji S2 Pro + Micro-Nikkor 60mm. f2.8 + on-board flash
ORG-ORG-OFF - 1:125 @ f32 - ISO 100
Post-process: slightly cropped - resized (10% steps) - saturation
+10 - USM 250,0.3,0
Any comment ?

Cheers,
Jean-Pierre
Pbase and DPReview supporter
Go have a look at : http://www.pbase.com/scherrer

JP Scherrer · Aug 28, 2003

DEJ said:
"I like it", gotta have that lens or the 105mm Micro???
The many post of Yves and your post using this lens make it a winner
How did you get the black background?
Regards
dej

Hi ! the 60 m. micro IS A GREAT lens... however you have to go very near when it comes to catch bugs with it... but then again you have more DOF than with the 105 !!!

The background was a FOAM CORE BOARD painted in black. I found the leave and brought it inside to photograph... I usually keep a piece of black foam core in my car, so in any case I can allways put it behind the subject I want to shoot... This is a "trick" I learned in the Nikon Talk Forum (non-DSLR)... Very usefull...

Cheers,
Jean-Pierre
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donald k · Aug 28, 2003

J-P. Scherrer said:
First dead leave of the year...

Fuji S2 Pro + Micro-Nikkor 60mm. f2.8 + on-board flash
ORG-ORG-OFF - 1:125 @ f32 - ISO 100
Post-process: slightly cropped - resized (10% steps) - saturation
+10 - USM 250,0.3,0
Any comment ?

Cheers,
Jean-Pierre
Pbase and DPReview supporter
Go have a look at : http://www.pbase.com/scherrer

--Vvery nice. Did you use any compensation on the flash? and considering the weather you have had I was wondering if it died from the cold or the heat?

Also can you tell me approximately how your USM numbers would translate to Photoshop?

Donald K
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Hey, Is this thing on? Can anyone hear me back there?

JP Scherrer · Aug 28, 2003

donald k said:
--Vvery nice. Did you use any compensation on the flash? and
considering the weather you have had I was wondering if it died
from the cold or the heat?

I guess it died from the HEAT !!! We had up to 38 degrees (centigrade), and an average of 32/35 degrees for the last two months...

donald k said:
Also can you tell me approximately how your USM numbers would
translate to Photoshop?

I also use PS, and my usual settings for USM are AMOUNT 200/250, RADIUS 0.2/0.3 and THRESHOLD 0 ! I don't use in-camera sharpening, so I might sometimes even apply twice USM... IMHO, it less agressive to use twice a little amount of sharpening than only once a bigger one...
Hope this help ?

Cheers,
Jean-Pierre
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DEJ · Aug 28, 2003

Thanks for the Black foam board tip!

Yves P. · Aug 28, 2003

Very nice J-P, super Sharp image ...

J-P. Scherrer said:
First dead leave of the year...

Fuji S2 Pro + Micro-Nikkor 60mm. f2.8 + on-board flash
ORG-ORG-OFF - 1:125 @ f32 - ISO 100
Post-process: slightly cropped - resized (10% steps) - saturation
+10 - USM 250,0.3,0
Any comment ?

Cheers,
Jean-Pierre
Pbase and DPReview supporter
Go have a look at : http://www.pbase.com/scherrer

--
Yves P.

http://www.pbase.com/yp1/images01
http://www.pbase.com/yves_pinsono23

rainersw · Aug 29, 2003

Hi J-P.

My english is not good enough to understand it? Would you pleas explain - better tell me the german word?

Thanks

Rainer

--
So sorry for my 'inklisch' - any germans here?

JP Scherrer · Aug 29, 2003

Hi ! sorry not able to give you the german name for "foam core", but it's the same as that white stuff in wich you received your camera, you see ? It's also used in construction to "block" the noises...

You fing this in any "Do It Yourself" shop... Just paint it black and off you go shooting... but you can just as well use some matte velvet for example, or anything BLACK, wich absorbs the light, to make a nice background !
Hope this helps ?

Cheers,
Jean-Pierre
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JP Scherrer · Aug 29, 2003

...go to :

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=5750829

in the Nikon Talk Forum (non-DSLR) ! "Uncle Frank" is the one who started all this !

Cheers,
Jean-Pierre
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rainersw · Aug 29, 2003

Thank you, I think i know what this is "Styropor". But i have never seen it without texture.
I go out to OBI and have a look!

Have a nice day

Rainer

J-P. Scherrer said:
Hi ! sorry not able to give you the german name for "foam core",
but it's the same as that white stuff in wich you received your
camera, you see ? It's also used in construction to "block" the
noises...
You fing this in any "Do It Yourself" shop... Just paint it black
and off you go shooting... but you can just as well use some matte
velvet for example, or anything BLACK, wich absorbs the light, to
make a nice background !
Hope this helps ?

Cheers,
Jean-Pierre
Pbase and DPReview supporter
Go have a look at : http://www.pbase.com/scherrer

--
So sorry for my 'inklisch' - any germans here?

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