James A Rinner

My latest setup is the Olympus E-M1 and the Olympus 60mm macro lens, plus three stacked extension tubes (47mm worth) to get me the same amount of magnification as my old setup. Since these tubes...

The setup has changed throughout the years, but here is my two basic setups. The shots in 2015 and some in 2016 were done with an Olympus E-M5 and E-M1. Mounted to the body was an adapted Minolta...

Great shots!

The cold also slows you down too! I stand outside for hours at a time to take macro photos of snowflakes! http://jamesarinner.zenfolio.com/p692436421

Joe Pineapples is correct. Cooling the filter ring causes contraction of the male thread of the filter in the female thread of the lens.

Thanks!

Thank you James!

I am an old darkroom, Zone System man. The digital files from that camera gave me plenty of latitude for post processing them into the final images you see. My son just bought a mint, used E-3 for ...

Thanks, My son who has a E-510 just purchased a used E-3 and is very excited!

Thanks!

Here you go!

Thank you! The first really needs to be printed large. I should give it a try, my printer will do a 17" x 30"!

I just bought one for my son, who has an E-510! Picked it up, with a very low shutter count, for $130 US!

This snowflake is a 13 layer focus stack. It was shot with an Olympus E-M1 (Mark I), Olympus 60mm macro and a combination of 10mm, 16mm and 21mm extension tubes, giving me about 3.5:1 (7:1 in 35mm ...

Thank you very much Andrew!

Thank you very much!

Are the rest of you like me? You take a lot of photos, with the thought of one day getting around to them and then take more photos! I have gone through the same equipment list that most of you ...

I should update to include the two you suggested. I have used those and they do pretty much the same thing as the lens correction. Also using the keystone correction in my Olympus E-M1 also crops ...

I wrote this article about three years ago for DPReview, but they removed all user articles a couple of years ago. Just recently I posted it to a new blog I have started and thought there are a ...