I was just playing around with my 300/4 + 1.4x. Actually, I was out looking for birds to get images of but then saw this and used that lens as a macro lens instead. It does darned well and the working distance is superb!
If you look closely you'll see that there is a second Box Elder bug further down in the petals. It even looks like there might be some hanky panky going on which might just explain why that upper bug is standing so tall. Hmm...
Rick, I was using this on the 1.5m closest focusing distance range of the 300/4. I figure I was about 4-5 feet away. For true macro I've also got a 500D closeup adapter that fits this 300/4 and allows me to get 1:1 without the cropping that I've gone to on this image, but I didn't have it with me at the time.
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2 repliesI was just playing around with my 300/4 + 1.4x. Actually, I was out looking for birds to get images of but then saw this and used that lens as a macro lens instead. It does darned well and the working distance is superb!
If you look closely you'll see that there is a second Box Elder bug further down in the petals. It even looks like there might be some hanky panky going on which might just explain why that upper bug is standing so tall. Hmm...
20D, 300/4 + 1.4x, 1/1600 @ f5.6, ISO 400
Your combo works pretty decent...how close were you?