I picked up a thing at the art store, two clamps on a bendable wire, clamped
one to a 1/4 20 bolt I put in the bottom of the camera, the other to the
flower stem. $10 dollars, cause I couldn't find a real hardware store in my
area where I could have made one and had to supply a box store with cash for
something that wasn't quite what I wanted, but worked... sort of.. I started
using it to hold a Camcorder light in front of the camera for those super
macro shots and the stupid thing broke. Stupid piece of plastic used as a
stopper to hold the camp on the wire and spring set up, and destroyed the
whole thing fell apart when it popped out.
But it was simple. Some day I'll be near a real hardware store and make
something to hold the silly little lights.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Morton" <loncayeway@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:46 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Pixel diffraction effects on resolution [was Mini Macro
questions]
>
> Device that attaches to flowers to steady them: the "McClamp"; two
> versions available, one which attaches to the tripod and one which is
> attached to a fiberglass stick that goes into the ground. I use the
> latter, which works just great although sometimes the flower is a bit
> taller than the device can reach to properly steady... the other version
> which attaches to the tripod would work well in such cases but I always
> end up moving my tripod around a lot so, that one isn't really practical
> for me. In any case, I always stick a stack of loose change between the
> clamp ends so that the foam isn't pressing in on the plant stem too hard.
>
> New CMOS sensors: the Foveon X3 chip captures red, green, and blue at
> every pixel by using the fact that silicon absorbs different wavelengths
> of light at different depths. Fujifilm also has a similar concept in
> development. When THAT digital technology is finally perfected, I think I
> might be ready to finally buy a digital camera!
>
> John Morton
> http://OriginOfWriting.com
>
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