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Offline John Hill

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Re-purposing a cheap drill press attachment!
« on: June 27, 2011, 08:01:35 PM »
I made this quite a while ago, the drill press was a cheap attachment for a 1/4" drill.


macro by aardvark_akubra, on Flickr


Distance from camera flange to lens flange is about 235mm, distance from front of lens to object is about 40mm.

Lens is Helios 44mm 2/58.  Camera is Pentax ist*DS.

Coin 0.7sec at F16, almost impossible to focus at wider apertures!

Computer ram 0.3sec at F5.6.

The light is natural winter sunlight on a rather cloudy day and was fluctuating quite a bit.

« Last Edit: June 27, 2011, 08:33:35 PM by John Hill »
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Re: Re-purposing a cheap drill press attachment!
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2011, 08:08:53 PM »
Hi,

If only I could see the pictures :( :( :(

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Re: Re-purposing a cheap drill press attachment!
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2011, 08:26:49 PM »
I can, John - a face, a lattice and the camera stand. Maybe DaveH is winding you up.

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Re: Re-purposing a cheap drill press attachment!
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2011, 08:29:35 PM »
Everyone should be able to see it now.... :scratch:
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Re: Re-purposing a cheap drill press attachment!
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2011, 08:35:23 PM »
Andy, John,

I can't see those from Image shack in the first post.

I see the one posted by John, from Flickr - Thanks very much  :thumbup: :clap: :D


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Re: Re-purposing a cheap drill press attachment!
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2011, 08:39:07 PM »
John,

Thanks very much I can see the one in your first post now from Flickr :thumbup: :clap: :clap: :clap:

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Re: Re-purposing a cheap drill press attachment!
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2011, 08:44:02 PM »
John,

Clever bit of kit you have there. :clap:

I take it you are into macro photography.

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Re: Re-purposing a cheap drill press attachment!
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2011, 05:24:06 AM »
Yes why not, it's a good thinking..  :nrocks:
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Re: Re-purposing a cheap drill press attachment!
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2011, 05:42:48 AM »
Quote from: DaveH on June 27, 2011, 08:44:02 PM
John,

Clever bit of kit you have there. :clap:

I take it you are into macro photography.

DaveH


Dave, I messed around with it until I got bored,  about a week or two I suppose! :lol:
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OT Re: Re-purposing a cheap drill press attachment!
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2011, 06:45:57 AM »
Going Off Topic - John, now you've let on that you've got that memory, have you started MadModding on that yet?  how about a "portable" core drive with USB interface?

Dave
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