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Johann
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#1 Post by Johann » Mon May 23, 2016 12:55 pm

I recently bought an Omax microscope and am very excited about my new hobby :)

After dabbling in Macro photography for a while, I am keen to explore Photomicrography.
Looking forward to learn from all of you and share my experiences as well.

I am from Johannesburg South Africa.
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#2 Post by zzffnn » Mon May 23, 2016 1:12 pm

Welcome to the forum, Johann!
We need more macrophotographers here for diversity.
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#3 Post by JimT » Mon May 23, 2016 1:15 pm

Welcome. Good place to learn.
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#4 Post by mrsonchus » Mon May 23, 2016 1:46 pm

Welcome to the forum Jo' - you're in good company here! :D
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#5 Post by gekko » Mon May 23, 2016 2:39 pm

Welcome, Johann. Macro photography and microscopy/photomicrography complement each other very well, I think.
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#6 Post by rabitt » Mon May 23, 2016 3:12 pm

Welcome, I will be looking forward to your posts.
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#7 Post by Dale » Mon May 23, 2016 8:29 pm

You have found the best forum on the web. I hope to get some advice
from you, I will be visiting Nigeria next near. Johannesburg was on the list,
but we had to downsize a bit.
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#8 Post by Pat Thielen » Tue May 24, 2016 3:43 am

Welcome to the forum! I also enjoy macro photography; I find the tiny hidden world quite fascinating. I look forward to seeing your posts and hopefully your photography as well!
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#9 Post by Johann » Tue May 24, 2016 6:03 am

Thanks for the warm welcome guys.

@Dale - Hope you enjoy Nigeria. If you are at all able to you must visit Capetown, spectacular part of the world :)

For those who are interested, here are a few of my macro photos:
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#10 Post by Pat Thielen » Tue May 24, 2016 9:49 am

Awesome photos! Thanks for sharing!
:D
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#11 Post by gekko » Tue May 24, 2016 11:27 am

Nice photos, especially of the grasshopper (I've never seen one like that) and the jumping spider.
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#12 Post by zzffnn » Tue May 24, 2016 1:49 pm

Johann,

Those macro shots are very nice!
All are single shots on live subjects, I assume?
What lens (combo), Canon MPE?
Hand held/flash?
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#13 Post by wmodavis » Tue May 24, 2016 4:27 pm

Welcome! And you make me salivate about being able to generate photos that even I can tell are great.
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#14 Post by Johann » Tue May 24, 2016 5:14 pm

Thanks for all the positive feedback :)

@ zzffnn: All photos were shot using Canon 600D with 100mm Canon macro lens except gecko, I used 70-200 Zoom lens - hand held, no flash. All single shots, this was done before I knew there is such a thing as focus stacking :shock:

Grasshopper:
f/6.7
100mm
Shutter speed: 1/900 sec

Gecko:
f/2.8
200mm
ISO 400
Shutter speed: 1/200 sec

Spider:
f/4.0
100mm
Shutter speed: 1/750 sec

Bee:
f/5.6
100mm
Shutter speed: 1/1250sec

Hope this is helpful ;)
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#15 Post by 75RR » Tue May 24, 2016 6:21 pm

Do like the green grasshopper!
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#16 Post by billben74 » Wed May 25, 2016 6:53 pm

Wow awesome photos.
I'm fairly ignorant of macro photography although I'm guessing, given your shutter speed that this were "simple" hand held shots?

Amazing photos though.
I love the spider.
But I do like spiders ;)
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#17 Post by MicroInspector » Thu May 26, 2016 2:59 am

Nice to know a fellow microscopist
What model is your omax microscope?
Mine is omax is a M82EZ
The microscope reveals the truth of life.
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#18 Post by Johann » Thu May 26, 2016 7:21 am

MicroInspector wrote:Nice to know a fellow microscopist
What model is your omax microscope?
Mine is omax is a M82EZ
I have the M837ZL - it comes with DIN achromatic objectives - which i would like to upgrade to PLAN objectives, will do some research to see what would be the best objectives to get - once i saved up ;)
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#19 Post by MicroInspector » Thu May 26, 2016 11:11 am

Omax make nice microscopes
Some times I wonder why is oylimpia microscopes
Are so costy
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