dicklaxt
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Post by dicklaxt on Jun 11, 2015 12:06:53 GMT
I like to play around with this a bit. It's a good release/slot for the long winter months or the hot summer months when this old man is either "Hot or Cold". My wife tells me I'm that way all the time,keep'em guessing I say. I have a machinist friend who made this rig for me. I have never met him face to face but we have struck up a close relationship over the last ten years or so via the internet, We started a conversation/exchanged ideas about this rig via e mail's. The result was this Macro Rig, In photographers Jargon I guess it's a Focus Rail etc etc . He gathered the material from his scrap bin except for some tiny screws with allen head features and came up with this unit. I think he did a fantastic job and it works to perfection. I added the base ,mounts and vertical adjuster component's. i61.tinypic.com/124veoj.jpgi60.tinypic.com/25gw4cl.jpgi58.tinypic.com/5lrvxl.jpgThere goes that fast squirrel again,I'll get him one of these days. dick |
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Post by Major Major on Jun 11, 2015 12:53:46 GMT
Looks pretty impressive, Dick!
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dicklaxt
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Post by dicklaxt on Jun 11, 2015 14:58:57 GMT
Now if I just had a high end Camera and Macro lens I could really put it to work but thats not going to hapen. Social Security fixed income doesn't have room for such.  dick |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 11, 2015 15:17:37 GMT
There's just something about good precision machine work; I had much rather hold it than diamonds or rubies.
For several years, I built custom rifles and did custom gunsmithing on the side, and really developed an appreciation for fine machine work.
You must be held in high regard, as he even went to the trouble of damascening the brass.
I like the Vernier adjustments.
As for the cash flow, you are not alone in your financial embarrassment; at least you have a fixed income; I have not had a paying job since last August and my meager rat-hole money is just about exhausted; it's good I know how to live cheap; poor pitiful me... 
By the way, what is that lens attachment(s); I have never seen anything quite like it ?
Have you got a set of macro extension tubes; we got a non-electronic three-piece set from Amazon for about twenty bucks (well, it is actually five pieces counting the male and female adapters); we have taken some amazingly detailed close-ups with these.
My wife popped the back cover off of my pocket-watch and took some pictures of the internals; you can even see the machine marks on the tiny gears (one can barely see the gears themselves with the naked eye).
We also have an inexpensive set of "close-up" magnifying lens filters of varying X-powers that really bring in the detail; sometimes, we use the close-ups and the extension tubes together; that is when your neat focus rail would really come in handy. |
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dicklaxt
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Post by dicklaxt on Jun 11, 2015 16:45:12 GMT
Yes I have all that add on macro equipment including both 150 and 250 Raynox filters but no matter what... If you add anything to the fixed lens of this Bridge Camera I have you are still not going to get the image quality you would get with a Macro Lens in conjunction with a larger sensor camera. The Macro Mode selection of the Bridge camera is in its self pretty darn good.
The rig you asked about is a setup I made .I took a lens cover I had, drilled the appropiate size hole in it and epoxied the main element out of a 70-200mm lens into it, I then epoxied a fiter ring( broke the glass out of it ,smile) on to it that would adapt it to a lens hood I had laying around, I then got and adapter ring that would couple this whole mess up to my Bridge Camera fixed lens, What I actually did was fabricate a Telescopic View using it with the Macro Mode Selection on the camera tho I didn't have a clue that was what I was doing at the time. I was just playing/experimenting,surprizingly enough it does capture good detail but has very,very minimal field of view. If I were to take several shots and then do some focus staking of images it would be fine but gathering left to right as well as up and down becomes untenable to the point of boredom.In fact I never did figure out how to do that.
dick
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 11, 2015 17:38:31 GMT
That is interesting; I'm glad I asked. |
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