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Hey Folks. Yesterday I scored a Cannon 80D bundle from Costco to go with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM I purchased several years ago. I hate to admit it but I have NEVER used the macro lens and frankly have no idea how to use the camera at all. I have the tutorial DVD in hand right now, and am about to read the stikies in this forum. No one will be bugging me to do anything for the next 6 hours so I expect to make a little headway. BUT could someone share some setting with me that will allow for instant gratification? The camera looks complicated enough but even the Macro lens has settings on it LOL!
 
So after figuring out you cannot get right up on a coral using that Macro lens... not bad and on full auto. Looks like a legit learning curve to do this right ;)
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saltyfilmfolks said:
Hahahaha.

:p

Great pics !
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Thanks Man, depth of field is an issue with that lens up close though. The Chihuahua came out remarkably well as did several other portrait type images. My brother in law who is a professional director and teaches at Brooklyn College is coming down in a few weeks and swears that he can get me up to speed with the operational basics in a few hours. In the meantime "playing with it" really has been interesting.

I shot this one today hoping to see if I could get a little insight into what was eating my "My Miami" chalce... interesting find that wouldn't have happened with out the macro lens.

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So the question is - What type of flatworm are those little guys? No SPS in the tank so.... Hate to hit such a small tank with Flatworm exit.
 
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Off hand , it looks like a common planarian. Red acoel. Wouldn't Be surprised I'd it was eating dead flesh, but you should see them in the sump and the bottom of the glass too.

Maybe @KJ could help us there.

You'll want to squeeze the apature for the depth of field. So use a higher one. You'll have to compensate buy lowering the shutter speed OR increasing the asa.
 
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saltyfilmfolks said:
Off hand , it looks like a common planarian. Red acoel. Wouldn't Be surprised I'd it was eating dead flesh, but you should see them in the sump and the bottom of the glass too.

Maybe @KJ could help us there.

You'll want to squeeze the apature for the depth of field. So use a higher one. You'll have to compensate buy lowering the shutter speed OR increasing the asa.
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So I'm going to go "squeeze" the aperture? Isn't that what the Petco grooming tech does to my dog when my wife takes it for a cleaning? LOL.... So if I look at the meta data attached to the image, set the camera to that then squeeze its aperture and lower the shutter speed Ill get a little better depth of field... uhhh... interesting.

To me that sounds a lot like

"You'll want to use a materialized view for the query - something like

CREATE VIEW Flat_Worms
AS
SELECT *
FROM FlatWorms.dbo.FlatWorm_Types
UNION ALL...

"

I always feel like a dummy when talking to @reefsquad members ;)
 
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Lol. That's how I feel about chemists.

And keep it simple. If we were talking about a 60year old film camera the procedure would be the same.
The rest of the stuff that makes it easy really makes it hard.

Just like leds!! Too many buttons.
You need theee.
 

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