Kinder Surprise 2

[Carl_Constantine]

Here are some more kinder surprise shots. My wife went to the store yesterday and they were giving them away. The Kinder Surprise also came its' own box, so I used that as a bit of a mini lightbox for presentation.

All shots are F8, 0.3s, 18-55@55 with +4+@+1 closeup lenses, built-in flash, handheld

[rjlittlefield]

Hand-held macro at 0.3 seconds, showing crisp half-tone printing pattern?! You surely have the steadiest hands of anyone I know! Either that, or...

I'll bet your effective exposures are almost entirely by flash, which is 1/1000 sec or less regardless of how slow you have the camera shutter set. Try cranking down the shutter time. If your exposures really are almost entirely by flash, then the pictures will not change much all the way down to the minimum shutter setting for flash sync (1/200 second for a Canon 300D).

Assuming your exposures do turn out to be flash only, then you also have the option to stop down farther, up to the limits of flash power. The Canon 300D does a little pre-flash before the shutter opens, to decide how much flash power is really required. At f/8 and short distance, like here, it would realize that not much flash is needed, and will use a partial power flash. Stopping down farther makes the camera realize that more flash is needed, and it obliges as much as it can.

I'd have to run some experiments to be sure, but I'd guess that you can run down to f/22 or f32 and still have enough power to get good exposures at these distances. No need to worry about diffraction at these magnifications.

These are looking good. You having fun?

--Rik

[Carl_Constantine]

Hand-held macro at 0.3 seconds, showing crisp half-tone printing pattern?! You surely have the steadiest hands of anyone I know! Either that, or...

I was actually steadying my hand on the back of a chair and my knee. Forcing an almost tripod scenario with my body.

I'd have to run some experiments to be sure, but I'd guess that you can run down to f/22 or f32 and still have enough power to get good exposures at these distances. No need to worry about diffraction at these magnifications.

Will maybe try that on my next set of images. IF they turn out, I'll post but otherwise just experimentation.

These are looking good. You having fun?

Indeed, I'm happy that I can actually contribute to this forum.

[beetleman]

The toys are coming out very sharp Carl.