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A spectacular picture and a great choice Well done BP
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Welcome to the forum, John
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Hi Charles and welcome
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Well done Paul, that is a spectacular image of the lily.
And well done on making a difficult choice Heather, the image quality around here is a bit special.
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Greetings Jem, and welcome
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Greetings and welcome
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Very well done Fuji
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Well, I found four and could see another three when I knew where they were, but two I still couldn't see at all
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Hi Joe, and welcome from me as well. If you haven't already noticed, some of the people here are a bit wacky, but I'm still sane (or so the voices tell me)
Don't worry about developing a 'style'. Some people never do and it doesn't hurt their photography at all
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Well chosen Chris and very well done Fuji
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Love it!
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I have a set badged as Jessops, bought there quite a few years ago for about £70 I think. They do have the electrical connectors and thus maintain both autofocus and aperture control.
I originally bought them to go with my 50mm lens to use instead of a dedicated macro and they served me well for years before I bought the sigma 105 and then the MPE65, both of which are still in regular use.
As Fuzzy stated, the ONLY purpose of the extension tube (or the substitute piece of cardboard tube) is to allow you to move closer to your subject and thus fill the frame more with the subject, which with some insects can be frustrating as they tend to be scared off, but the results can be quite spectacular.
As an aside... I do combine the 12mm or 25mm with the Sigma sometimes to get even closer if I don't have the 65 with me, and perhaps surprisingly they can also be used with a longer zoom lens to allow you to get closer to a bug for example, that is up in a tree. I have used either of these with the 70-200 at 200mm to photograph caterpillars, and I've even seen one being used behind a 100-400 IS lens when the user spotted a damselfly that was closer than the minimum focussing distance of the lens.
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Greetings and welcome
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A real picture with a story. Well done on PotW Leon, and well chosen Annie
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Yes, my system drive is image-backed up about once per month.
Photos, videos, documents etc are copied to a minimum of two external drives, one set of which are kept at a friends house.
RAW files are written to another external drive as soon as unloaded from the cards, and not cleared from the cards until the external copies are also made.
With important pictures (weddings for example), they are also written to DVD as RAW files and also as the finished layered pictures. I don't include the ones which include printer profile information since that would change anyway depending on which printer I am using.
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any more and I maybe forced to post an image of me with my shirt off just to prove we do get 'sun' over here
Nooooooooooooooo
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Just been to examine mine and I think I've been lucky. Cant see anything inside the lenses although the bright light has left me seeing stars
Although I use my kit in all weathers, it never stays in a damp bag and the lenses are off the cameras at home and in a warm dry spot. (L series lenses help as well since they have good sealing when fitted with UV filters)
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Well done Barbara, a lovely picture
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I do prefer a backpack most of the time because a single strap causes me neck problems.
The content does depend on what I am aiming to shoot, whether it be people, bugs, landscapes, and if possible I then leave it in the car and just use my pockets.
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Doesn't look like it, on the WEX website, it's listed as discontinued and replaced by the 1DX.
It doesn't say when though, so you may still be able to find one somewhere.
*edit* Discontinued Mid 2012, I didn't realise it was that long ago
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That is just beautiful. Missed the original thread though
Well done Barbara and well chosen BP
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That does look rather good. A man of many talents indeed
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Greetings and welcome, is that kettle boiled yet?
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That's an interesting little piece of kit that I've not come across before.
Especially good since it gives you a zoom range instead of the fixed length you get from putting extension tubes behind a 50mm (for example) or using a reversing ring
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Greetings Peter, and welcome to the madhouse, I mean the forum