Wednesday 14 August 2019

Pollen Beetle - Video

OK. So I spent a bit more on the new set up. I found a mint condition used EF-M 28mm macro lens that I had my eye on. Lets me get within about an inch of a subject and has LED lighting built in round the front lens. No extra batteries needed as they take the power from the camera battery.

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The LEDs are not over bright. Good enough when that close to a subject to add some illumination to darker areas of the subject. Switchable at two light intensities. Choice of left, right or both on.

I had looked round for something to test it on and found some flowers which had pollen beetles. It took three attempts. Just as I had the first fixed in place the beetle flew away. On the second attempt the beetle dropped off. It was a case of third time lucky.

After a few still photo takes I though it would be more interesting to make a video. One great facility when shooting video is the ability to use the touch screen and change the area for the lens to focus on. Either tap a new place or drag the focal area box to a new position for a smooth change in focus.

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Enough ramble - on to the video. (No tweaking, exactly as taken at 1080p HD)



 
1st clip with the lens set to macro, the others with the setting on 'super macro'

6 comments:

  1. This is really good. I'm envious. Is 2K the maximum resolution? I was wondering if you could crop as the focus looks good enough for higher magnification.
    It is a wonderful piece of kit.

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    1. Adrian: Filmed at 1920 x 1080 25 fps 2945 fps. Top ability is 1920x1080 50 fps which is a rate of 4288KB/s Tried a quick software crop in iMovie and I can go in quite a lot. Too far and the shallow depth of field becomes very noticeable.

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  2. A super video - it is so interesting to see this little beetle through a macro lens. I should think you are very pleased with your new "toy" :)

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    1. RR: Thank you. Not often we get the chance of a closer look and our minibeasts. Quite honestly I am over the Moon with this camera. Far better than I expected.

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  3. Ah so that's what those little guys are called

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  4. Oooooh - great results with that lens and camera combo!

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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