P3D Re: Hummingbirds

["John Goodman" <jgood@xxxxxxxx>]

> I'd like to photograph hummingbirds in flight in stereo.  Any ideas
> other than spending the inherentance on a Macro Realist?

At the Kansai Stereo Photographer's Club meeting on 
5/23, more examples of stunning macro stereos were 
shown by several members. Subjects included flowers, 
butterflies, and other fauna, but hummingbirds in flight have 
also been beautifully captured.

Members use the plastic lenses from disposable "macro" 
cameras available in Japan, custom mounted in plates 
which fit old Minolta or Yashica bodies with their mirrors 
locked up and a septum added. The twin lens spacings and 
distances from film plane have been worked out to give 
various fields of view. With a pistol grip, cable release and 
flash, the results are powerful, dedicated cameras for 
capturing close-ups in stereo. As good or better than a 
Macro Realist, at around a tenth of the cost, imho.

JG


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