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Guy MIller
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Getting far too chatty here & L-B looks as if his getting an intro for another
whip round for the Lammazine..... So here's another pic
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aging bimbo
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| chuckm wrote: | | There must be a good technical story behind it ... it has to be more than just blind luck. |
I didn't realize Guy is blind - there must be a truly amazing technical story behind it... |
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Guy MIller
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Sorry to disappoint AB, but blind luck is closer to the mark.
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Chertsey Bulovski
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I'm very interested in the microscopic flora and fauna that infest the hardened outer crust of the sun baked lamma dogs egg.
Do you think you could possibly take a few nice macro shots for me Guy?
Thanks in advance
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Guy MIller
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Be delighted to ChertseyB......, if you click on the image it'll take you
through to something that might get yr attention  (
not for general public viewing & don't forget to click on the little box
in the corner once yr in there)
Now all I have to do is get the muck off the lens !!!
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Guy MIller
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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More blind luck...
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chuckm
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Guy, I just gotta ask ... how do you capture these amazing shots? Do you set the camera up and sit back with a remote control just
outside the "stinger danger zone"? The image quality is perfect for web presentation.
Looks like you are able to use a fairly fast shutter speed, and I assume it's a digicam with a macro setting.
Oh damn, I forgot, it's probably a new i-Bamboozler (all the rage on Lamma, so I hear) so it just sits there by itself, watching
for just the right moment ... and then .................. Wham! . 
I don't know about L-G and all the other contributors, but I'm beginning to suffer from "shutter envy" 
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Chuck!
Now you've done it and blown Guy's deep dark secret!
Yes, Guy is the proud owner of the latest model of the "Bontempi Gigapix Fandango i-Bamboozler", the Mach-99Xtra model.
It's absolutely fully automatic, just sitting there all night on his rooftop and when its on-board Artificial Intelligence infrared-sensor movement-detector pattern-recognises anything interesting flying around, it zooms in, sets all the camera's picture-taking parameters fully automatically, takes multiple shots and then its BSS (Best Shot Selector) chooses the best one and automatically uploads it by Gigabit Wi-fi wireles network connection directly to Guy's website.
He gets up very late in the morning, all well-rested, and has a look at the latest photos uploaded to his website. All he has to do himself is to choose his own favourite pictures of the night and hyperlink them from these forums. That's the ONLY thing he has to do manually, but the next model of the i-Bamboozler might likely add this hyperlinking feature as well...
You see, taking these shots is so much easier than most people think! Why should us traditional, manual photographers get shutter envy? As long as Guy doesn't start competing for my paid photo shoots with some of my clients, I don't mind but even appreciate his fantastic wildlife shots very much.
Anyway, his wildlife pictures are far beyond in quality from any other photographer living on Lamma Island, hopeless to try competing, we'veall given up already. Maybe with the sole exception of the Official Court Artist's fantastic insect shots, but he's only a temporary, occasional Lamma resident... 
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Guy MIller
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Thanks the praise L-B & for getting me out of a tight spot.
(Knows it's only coz yr looking for my old Bontempi when I upgrade)
Besides, thought I was going to have to make up some cock & bull story
about sitting for endless hours with my Nikon D70 & 60mm macro lens
4-8" away from a bunch of rabid hornets continuously getting tangled in my
hair & landing on my face & arms as I either blow on them from a distance
of about 4" or knock them off their resting position with a 6" twig whenever
they settle to get a bit of movement out of them & all without remote control
coz D70 doesn't have one except some stupid thing that works from in
front of the camera (if I had one).
Now all I have to do is try & work out how to stop them getting the lens on
my Bontempi so dirty when I'm not around.
But Chuck, or anybody else, not trying to intimidate anybody, just trying to
get better pics. I started by posting some pretty bad ones, & now with these
Bontempi's around, anybody can take reasonable to good pics with a little
patience & thought.
So....., anybody got any pics? (if that isn't a troll invite, I don't know what is)
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chuckm
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| Guy MIller wrote: | | .......... some cock & bull story about sitting for endless hours with my Nikon D70 & 60mm macro lens4-8" away from a bunch of rabid hornets continuously getting tangled in my hair & landing on my face & arms ........... |
Gawd! The things some people will do for science! . I wish I could afford a D70, or even a D50! . 1,600 Canadian bingo-bucks (D70s with lens) is just a bit too steep (well, a lot too steep actually) for this photo-challenged soul. I think I might be able to afford the rotting bananas though.
I'd love to go to the effort of automating it just for the pure technical fun, spending endless hours getting it to sense a close-up insect and snapping a shot. The software and hardware challenge is so sweet! Years of experimenting, hundreds of stings and thousands of false starts might produce at least one useable shot that approaches Uncle Guy's polished performance.
*sigh* . 
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Guy MIller
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Side view of the monster shown above...
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Another good looking beast....
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I'm curious ... what kind of shutter speed is needed to capture these shots? Despite the bluish blur in the latest picture, I tend to think it must be fast, since many insect wings beat at audio frequencies.
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Shutter speed on all of them was at 500, the blur is coz the wings were
beating really fast in some pictures whereas in others it was closer to a glide flight
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Guy MIller
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And this is where some of them live...
Interesting (for me at least) to see what I assume is the various growth stages
shown in the development in the eyes - ranging through, pale yellow, grey, to brown.
Poor chap (bottom centre left) looks as if he's gone cross-eyed looking at the camera.
(apologies for quality but there might have been a bit of camera shake) 
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Guy MIller
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Mr. Bean..., just for you - I'm working on the next photo as you read.
Thought of putting this in the Dragonfly forum, but didn't seem right.
The dragonfly was caught in mid-flight & pulled to the ground, decapitated &
had it's wings pulled off - then a portion of it's innards removed, before the
hornet flew off with it's prize - apologies to dragon lovers
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Haven't had a wasp or hornet for a while........... so here's one......
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Thanks Bob........ checked them out & got a couple of ID's from them.
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