White Crysanthemum

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:39 pm

Nothing spectacular, just some white crysanths that our daughter brought home for mommy the other day.
I used a Helios 58mm lens held in front of the camera lens to act as a +20 close up lens, or thereabouts!

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:20 pm

You just put it in front of your phone camera? No holder?

Well, seems it works.

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:31 pm

MacroLuv wrote:You just put it in front of your phone camera? No holder? Well, seems it works.

Yes, I use that method a lot, and often get very sharp images, if the light is good(it wasnt this time!)

An example:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/D ... umtree.jpg

and:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/D ... ower01.jpg

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:51 pm

Although quality of the phone cameras lenses are not great you got a fine results.

Lobivia?... I heard it somewhere... Is it a cactus flower?

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:49 pm

Yes Lobivia is a cactus. I keep a few and oher succulents.
Lobivia is named after its home, Bolivia in south America(an anagram) tho they are more often called Echinopsis now, which is a boring name compared to Lobivia i think!

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:18 pm

I think I had one Echinopsis that bloomed only at night and very shortly. Nice big white flower like an old gramphone tube.

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:31 pm

Yes thats the traditional Echinopsis, with a short fat body.
That name has been around for a long time too but then they decided that Lobivia were Echinopsis too and so lumped them together. I still use the old name,Lobivia.