Unusual view..........

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:02 am

.........from inside a Sarracenia carnivorous plant looking up to the opening.

I borrowed a friends endoscope lens and cut a hole in the bottom of a pitcher to poke it in.

Different view?

Sarracenia

Cobra lily

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:21 pm

Um...uh...these are some really neat photographs, never seen nothing like them till now. Uh...your not going to be going into, uh...proctology any time soon I hope.

Doug will like these too, he is a fan of pitcher plants. Really some unique photos there Morgan

augusthouse · Post by **augusthouse** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:40 pm

Excellent perspective, great technique!

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:07 am

WOW...Incredible views Morgan. You open up a whole new world with that endoscope. How did you mate it to the camera? What we need is a view looking down into the rotting pool at the bottom

I don`t think I have ever seen pictures from the inside of a pitcher Plant

acerola · Post by **acerola** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:56 am

I especially like the second picture. Well done.

Carl_Constantine · Post by **Carl_Constantine** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:48 pm

WOW, that is really cool. I like the fact that you captured a fly that was also "captured" by the plant. This is macro thinking out of the box. I like it. Nice shots!

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:17 pm

Thanks all.

I only had my sticky hands on this lens for one weekend before, reluctantly, I had to give it back!

It had a Nikon fitting one end and an 500mm x 10mm stainless tube coming directly from it that had a very small 'eye' lens at right angles from the camera at the very end.
It proved difficult to provide enough light to the camera but after a lot of adjustments I managed a few reasonable photo's.

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:26 pm

Very intriguing!

Can I ask what camera body you used, and did the image "fill the frame" or are these photos cropped from a smaller circular image?

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:09 pm

Charles Krebs wrote:Very intriguing!

Can I ask what camera body you used, and did the image "fill the frame" or are these photos cropped from a smaller circular image?

A Nikon D200 was used and looking back at the photo's taken they were all full frame.

The endoscope had a lens of sorts at the camera end that presumably gave the full frame. It was also fixed focus.

Hope this helps.

augusthouse · Post by **augusthouse** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:33 pm

I had one of these lenses for a while. It went from f=70 to f=140mm it was a Karl Storz 593 Special Vario lens. The image would fill the frame on my D100, but there was some vignetting at f=70mm. It had a T2 mount.

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/u ... rz_1_1.jpg

There is some more info:
HERE

HERE

Craig

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