Your Canon Photos No.2: 14th to 20th May 2023

David,

The rose flower was seen in that forest near there, probably about 100 feet away. Yes, this is an out-of-the-camera JPEG.

Dunlin,

Thanks. 😀 Some of the flower petals are a little soft, but some people like them that way. I should have used maybe F11 or something.

Steve,

I'm sorry to hear about all the forest fires in Canada. We had horrible forest fires in Oregon also about two or three years ago. I did the same as you did; I documented it by taking pictures of all the smoke.

Bluebell Railway
I recently visited the Bluebell Railway, a Victorian train station that rescues and restores old steam trains, and runs train rides through a bluebell wood.

Filling the watertank:

This is a steamed banana carriage. The bananas would be ripened using this steam filled carriage, en route to their destination.

Gracias David.

David,

You got me.... 😀 I'm not sure of the flower ID. Would a google search help?

Separate from flower IDs, the only way I know bird identifications, is I have a book for Oregon birds. That covers about 90 percent of the birds that I see. For the rest, sometimes I get lucky with a google search or some smart person here tells me. 😀

Nice, I'm not an expert and not really sure. Its leaves look like some kind of viburnum, what we call in English 'lace cap' style blossom, but viburnum are normally more of a bush or shrub rather than a potted plant.

Dunlin,

That Bluebell Railway looks really cool. I'm sure that would be really popular with the kids. We have a small train at our zoo that the kids love.

As a big kid, I was on it once. 😀 Of course, I had to snap photos from it. 😀

Thanks Digirame.

So, inspired by the first shot in the thread by @davidwien I finally managed to shoot some Lilies of the Valley as well... or, rather ONE, pretty close:

Shot with a tiny (1 inch in diameter and 1 inch long) Agfa Colostar N 42 mm f/4.5 lens.

simplejoy,,

How did you mount that lens on your camera?

Steve Thomas

Simplejoy,

Wow...that's close...looks great. I suppose you could take a lot of closeups with that lens. I've never heard of it. How were you able to acquire that lens?

Thank you all!

I'm not completely sure what the lens was used for, but I suspect it could have been part of an Agfa Variograd 76/90 - a Photographic Belt Copying Machine from the past. It seems to be a custom-made example though, so anything is possible. Together with another photographic enthusiast I started to write an article on Agfa industrial lenses, where this one and others are mentioned. You can take a look here, if you're interested:
deltalenses.com/index.php/2022/08/05/agfa-gevaert-industrial/

It's just a hobby project and still unfinished, because information is very hard to find. But there's somewhat steady progress.

I adapted the lens via my bellows to a Canon EOS R5, which isn't the easiest solution possible, however quite a versatile one. The lens has an outside thread, which is (yes, really!) 27.4 x 0.5 mm - so very non-standard. However it fits okay inside a 28 x 0.75 mm thread and there are adapters for that diameter to the one my bellows needs or M42 etc.

Yes, focus stacking is pretty much necessary at this magnification, because there's barely anything in focus, almost regardless of f-stop. Given the fact that this one can't be stopped down anyways, the number of stacked shots goes up a bit. It's still nowhere near the amount many macro specialists are dealing with though.

Here's another shot with the same setup:

and here's an older image, taken outside (stacked from a couple of handheld shots):

My wife says these are Columbines.

She says they look like little bats.

Steve Thomas