Took the Laowa out for just a few minutes as I haven't really had time to use it. Struggled to find subjects. All handheld at f8 iso 400 no cropping. Hopefully I will have more time soon to give it more time for setup and put on tripod.
a quick shot of a flower in my backyard 2:1 magnification
same flower shown wide
some small bird seed from my bird feeder 2:1
a small fruit fly in a web of the bird feeder 2:1
Bird feeder with fruit fly and seed for reference on how small
BullsOnParade81 wrote:
Took the Laowa out for just a few minutes as I haven't really had time to use it. Struggled to find subjects. All handheld at f8 iso 400 no cropping. Hopefully I will have more time soon to give it more time for setup and put on tripod.
I have taken the liberty to copy your first image and to give it some of the treatment I use for my macros.
With respect, you have not shown the full potential of the detail the lens has captured.
I don't have the 100mm but I do have the 25mm x2.5 to x5. This is intended by Laowa to continue into higher magnification where the 100mm 2:1 or the 60mm 2;1 leave off. At x2.5 this should indicate the sort of results* to expect from the 100mm at x2.
These were shot on an A7r full frame, thus giving the 2:1 at the sensor, with TTL flash, so better than a tripod in daylight. At the f11 used, and x2.5, there is considerable diffraction blur in images from any lens, which has to be removed by micro contrast software, as I have done here.
I used a subject (Easter Cactus flower)that has pollen and a stigma. I do a lot of macro above 1:1 and would consider such a magnification for such a deep subject unsuitable, due to the amount of OOF parts of the subject. Anyway, here are some images, with a crosseye stereo.
* Different depth perspective, this being a wide-angle lens.
I wasn't super interested in this lens until I saw this. Those are some great shots, and he said he handholds most of them? This might be a good introduction into macro for me
Most of those samples look good, though. I'm a little surprised he didn't mention anything about the focus throw. I know, someone is going to chime in with "all macros have short focus throws," but this one's shorter than most.
jahro wrote:
I wasn't super interested in this lens until I saw this. Those are some great shots, and he said he handholds most of them? This might be a good introduction into macro for me
I shoot macro +/- daily and hand-hold all of them. Some are flash and some (recently most) are daylight. I was surprised to find that I could get some good daylight exposures with the Laowa x2.5 to x5.
