Tai Shimizu

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Creator of the iOS photography apps Gridditor & Filterstorm, the Mac drawing app Inkist, the Mac HDR app Light Compressor, and the experimental web browser Torii.

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300mm Preparations

In preparation for my coming Nikon 300mm f/4.5 ED IF AIS review I went out this morning with my PN-11 extension tube attached to take insect pictures. Here’s some of the results as a preview — or should I say pre-review?

This first image really illustrates what’s nice about this combination. I took this photo seconds after putting on the PN-11. It’s certainly possible to get this type of image with a 105mm or 200mm macro lens, but being at 300mm let me be 4 feet away so the moth wasn’t scared in the slightest.

moth

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My focus wasn’t perfect for the bee in this second shot, the shutter may not have been quite fast enough either, not sure. In any case, I’m a sucker for pictures with flight like this, so I’m still happy with it.

bee in flight

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With the other two, I used my monopod, but this one was just handheld. It was bright enough that they all could have been handheld, but the monopod made focusing much easier.

bumble bee

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All images were taken with natural light only at f/5.6 or f/8 on my D200.

Posted by tai on 2009-06-28 21:18:06. Comments (2) | Tiny link

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Nice pics Tai, what program did you use to create your site

Posted by johnwayne on 2010-12-02 04:16:42.

Hand Coded

This site isn’t based on any blogging software, the code was written in PHP/MySQL and I used Coda for my development environment.

Posted by tai on 2010-12-02 06:49:22.
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