Brian there's a big insect on the window

Lord Vetinari

Shout from the SWMBO yesterday. Went into the kitchen expecting to see a bee or dronefly and found one of the large Ichneumon wasps I've been trying to get some decent shots of on the window.
Trapped it with a glass and piece of card. Put a spot of honey on the card to see if it would calm down and feed. It didn't, after 5 mins of watching it frantically trying to escape, took it out into the garden to release it, put the glass on it's side and it then immediately calmed down and started cleaning itself giving me time to take a few shots before it eventually took off.
Brian V.



Crop from above shot





Crop from above shot

20DNoob

Those crops are wicked! Man I've gotta get myself one of those 65s' one of these days. Quick question if you don't mind, how close are you to the subject @5x?

Thanks.

Lord Vetinari

20DNoob wrote: »

Those crops are wicked! Man I've gotta get myself one of those 65s' one of these days. Quick question if you don't mind, how close are you to the subject @5x?

Thanks.

Thanks
at 5X the focus point is 1.5 inches in front of the lens.
Brian v.

dlplumer

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R. Scott

Those crops show incredible detail. I'm going to have to switch to Canon just so I can try the 65!

Lord Vetinari

Thanks Dan and Scott or the comments.

Scott - think the crop quality is more the camera than the lens (a 5Dmk2).
Brian V.

DeVil

I like the details on the eye
Have you ever tried to put [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Tele Converter [/FONT]before MP-E 65? Is it possible to achieve more working distance that way?

Lord Vetinari

DeVil wrote: »

I like the details on the eye
Have you ever tried to put [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Tele Converter [/FONT]before MP-E 65? Is it possible to achieve more working distance that way?

Thanks
I have once used a TC on the MPE-65 but that was to get to 10X with an additional dipter on the front too.
After using the MPE-65 for a while you don't tend to have too much of a problem with the short working distances. Often only be shooting very small bugs at 5X and they don't take too much notice of you.

Brian V.

DeVil

Thanks for the explanation

rhermans

great shots

Lord Vetinari

rhermans wrote: »

great shots

Thanks Ronny
Brian v.

GOLDENORFE

wonderfull series, congrats

phil

Lord Vetinari

GOLDENORFE wrote: »

wonderfull series, congrats

phil

Thanks Phil
Brian V.