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Finch and I ran our Brissie Wildlife workshop last weekend and I loaned my Sigma 180 Macro to one of the participants. Good opportunity to experiment so out with the Nikkor 300 f/2.8 and Triplus extension tubes

beautiful shots, love the colors in the first image

Wow

Probably the most expensive macro I've seen

Great photos, especially the frog,

cheers,

André

Excellent.

Nice Colours on that 1st image .. amazing

Hi Mark

Great shots using a non-conventional "macro" lens but they sure do work.

It was a fun day, participant's learned heaps and some great photos were achieved by all.

Excellent stuff!

Cheers

Great results with your unconventional macro lens Slider. I've used my 180mm f/2.8 with extension rings before, and been pleased with the result. Sure, the DOF isn't very large, but the greater working distance is very useful for subjects such as butterflies, which can sometimes be hard to get close enough to, without causing them to fly off, with conventional macro lenses of relatively short FL.

Gordon

Thanks for the comments folks

Gordon wrote:Great results with your unconventional macro lens Slider. I've used my 180mm f/2.8 with extension rings before, and been pleased with the result. Sure, the DOF isn't very large, but the greater working distance is very useful for subjects such as butterflies, which can sometimes be hard to get close enough to, without causing them to fly off, with conventional macro lenses of relatively short FL.

Gordon

Gordon, I normally use a Sigma 180 f/3.5 Macro which I love due to the greater working distance but this was ridiculous.

Here is a shot of the workshop group and I was behind them to get the frog and lizard with the 300 f/2.8

don't you like Slider's photo
everyone is so very serious about taking THEE photo of the frog or lizard. (voyeurs should I add ? )
I think that photo is very illustrating and funny.

Regards,
CD

They had a ball

i've use the 300 on dragonflies before with pretty good results

love the colours in #1, nice photo.

what sort of magnification would you get with this lens and all the ext tubes you used?