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Amazing eclipse pictures

Thursday, October 2, 2008

I found this picture linked from APOD. The 2008 eclipse pictures on Miloslav Druckmüller’s site are by far the best use of HDR type photography I have seen. Most of the time people overdo the processing. This is perfect.

Praesepae, Mercury, Moon, Comet and Corona up to 20 solar radii(© 2008 Miloslav Druckmüller, Peter Aniol, Vojtech [...]

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Insects and lenses

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

I have an old Nikon 24mm f/2.8 lens. I haven’t used it much recently, so I decided to play with it on Sunday. I borrowed a D70 and Nikon’s shortest extension tube. I wanted to test the sharpness of the lens, and to play with wide-angle close-ups. The lens is good for bees, but other [...]

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