Over the Christmas holidays my own present to myself arrived in the mail.
The extension tubes work by moving a lens away from the sensors inside the camera. The increased distance between the front lens and the sensors result in the camera's ability to only focus on near objects.
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| As the name suggests, it's a tube without any lenses. You can stick your finger through it :P Your camera clicks onto one end, and your lens on the other end. |
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| It's so easy and fun to use, even Bunny wants to have a go! |
It's similar to the eyes of many high short-sighted (myopic) people. They tend to have longer eyes than others with perfect vision where the front of their cornea is much further away from the retina. (Much further being >1mm.)
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| The 3 extension tubes stuck together allowed me to capture fine iris detail. To capture this image I had to be ~5cm away from the eye. |
So instead of food/wine blogging I’ve been
running around in the garden taking macro photos of flowers and bugs.
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| bottle brush bud things. |
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| daisy |
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| purple flower thing.... obviously I'm not a botanist! |
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| these two ants were relaying information and taking turns gathering syrup from the bottle brush. It was quite tricky to capture them. They kept moving! |
I also got sunburnt as a result from not re-applying my sunscreen after 4 hours.
I’m such a noob so I have so much more to
learn.
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| this was also taken with the 3 extension tubes stacked one on top of the other. Guess what it is? Hint: its necessary for this blogger! |
