A little dragonfly :)

rick01 (Roman) · #1 13-09-2009, 06:56 AM

Hello all,

After some testing my Raynox macro lens a did this image of I don't know how I call it in english (in latin it is coenagrion puella). Azure Damselfly ???

This animal is very calm and easy to shoot. So I took one to my home and took some pics of it. Here is my best one. Hope you like it.

Taken with my Panasonic FZ-18 and macro Raynox DCR-250.

Cheers, Roman

Liz · #2 13-09-2009, 07:58 AM

WOW ... that is amazing Roman!! Look at those eyes ... and ...mouth!!

That looks like like a nice little macro lens!! I have a FZ28 - have to have a look and see if it fits!!

renormalised (Carl) · #3 13-09-2009, 10:02 AM

Great shot there, Roman, very interesting subject

dpastern (Dave Pastern) · #4 13-09-2009, 10:38 AM

That's a super shot - those Raynor lenses are very good. I wish my local damsels were so easy to deal with, I can't usually get within 3' of one of them...

Dave

astro_south (Andrew) · #5 13-09-2009, 11:05 AM

Super shot Roman

lacad01 (Adam) · #6 13-09-2009, 05:10 PM

Fantastic detail captured there

StephenM (Stephen) · #7 13-09-2009, 08:03 PM

Brilliant shot Roman! Well done.

Cheers,
Stephen

beren · #8 13-09-2009, 11:04 PM

Congratulations great image, sharp and cool colour

rick01 (Roman) · #9 14-09-2009, 02:09 AM

Thanks all

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Liz: I just recommend this macro lens to my friend which also own a FZ-28. I bought my Raynox from Ebay (cause I can't find it in stories in my coutry). It is much better lens than original panasonic macro (it propably just ordinary magnifying glass with all chromatic aberations ...) Raynox consist from 3 glasses. And as you can see, the aberations are minimal. With 18x zoom of panasonic I can achieve very similar images like Canon's mpe65 macro lens with 1:2 macro mode. It cause of small 1/2" chip of panasonic and a big crop factor (around 6x in compare with canon's 1,6x ...)

More about Raynox here:
http://www.raynox.co.jp/english/dcr/...exdcr250eg.htm

Jeffkop (Jeff) · #10 14-09-2009, 08:19 AM

Awesome image ... a real stunner ... thanks for showing us.

Liz · #11 14-09-2009, 08:25 PM

Aaah ... thank you Roman, I will 90% get one of those lenses

Rhino1980 (Ryan) · #12 14-09-2009, 08:34 PM

Wow! Worthy of a place in a book.

petal666 · #13 16-09-2009, 10:38 AM

Excellent work.

Octane (Humayun) · #14 16-09-2009, 09:32 PM

Roman,

That is exquisite. Excellent, excellent work.

Not much more to add.

Regards,
Humayun