And I Thought The Macro Function Was Cool . . .
Posted 3 October 2008 in Random Photographs by Catriona
Thanks to a conversation with my baby brother, who has the same camera as I have, I’ve been made aware that my camera has a super macro function.
So, naturally, I immediately took some pictures of the Warhammer miniatures. I mean, what else was super macro invented for?
For the record, this miniature measure 4 cm from the top of the axe (which isn’t even visible in these pictures) to his feet.
The section of him visible in these pictures is 2.5 cm, total.
Sure, they’re not the best super macro photographs around. The super macro function is only available as a manual setting, which means I have to play around with the shutter speed and the ISO setting myself—and I’m not familiar enough with either the camera or with manual photography to be confident with doing that.
But I’m still fairly impressed that the camera can do this. (Mind, I need a tripod. My hands aren’t steady enough to manage super macro without some support.)
I mean, I took one look at these, and said to Nick, “Wow, this miniature is quite dusty.”
And it is.
If you look extremely closely.
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heretic wrote at Oct 3, 01:38 pm
yup super macro is awesome. really love the results i’ve been getting so far… http://flickr.com/photos/200ok/tags/macro
you don’t have to use it in full auto though, just set it to P and it’s still doing most things for you.
apparently a trick for macros is to use a small bag of rice as a “tripod” to rest the camera on. haven’t tried it myself yet, but it makes sense.
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Catriona wrote at Oct 3, 10:15 pm
Those are great—are they taken in bright light? Because I noticed my camera really freaking out about the light levels.
Thanks for the tip about portrait mode: I’ve just tried that, and it is much easier than full manual. It also helps that it’s daylight, I think.
The rice is a good idea—that would be excellent on uneven surfaces, too. I might try that next time I’m trying to take some super macro shots of small objects; things were shaking while I was trying to photograph the dwarf.