Your thoughts on the M6ii + 28mm f3.5 macro?

R2D2 wrote:

Sittatunga wrote:

Foskito wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

+1 Sometimes I’ll toss the M6ii + 28 Macro in my bike bag for shots of opportunity along the way. My strong preference for (lightweight) lighting on-the-go is a piece of translucent plastic with a hole cut in it and stuck on the end of the lens like this…

Note: With the 28 Macro, the diffuser slides nicely right onto the miniscule lens hood. Shown here sandwiched onto a Raynox Close Up Lens.

This setup provides a really nice diffuse light, and stops action/shake with the flash.

You can’t use the Focus Bracketing Mode with flash though. However you can shoot 14 fps with an external flash and “cut slices” right through your subject using the “Lean Technique” for stacking later (note: you need to “tape over” the hotshoe’s communication contacts in order to achieve 14 fps with the flash).

R2

ps. Info here provided for others (I know you know this stuff already ).

Great solution R2, thanks!!

Looks really good, but I'd radius that internal corner. The stress concentrations from rectangular windows were what caused the first jet airliners to break up in mid-air. The sharp corners of the hatches did something similar to a lot of the Liberty Ships too.

HeHe, now you're talking like a true engineer!

I think if I hit something hard enough to tear this 1mm poly sheet though, I'd for sure snap the lens in half first!

Having a nice radiused corner would make it look a little sleeker though! (esp good when I take it to Shark Tank!)

Not so much for a single impact, more for durability; the problem with those two examples was fatigue cracking. Once a crack opens up it will run and run unless you drill a hole at its end to stop it.