{"id":17425,"date":"2020-05-17T05:48:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T09:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=17425"},"modified":"2020-05-14T19:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T23:59:27","slug":"up-close-and-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/up-close-and-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"up close and personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17426\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Scotts-fertilizer-bead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17426\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Scotts-fertilizer-bead-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott&#8217;s fertilizer bead?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. I took this shot in October 2014 with a century old Zeiss licensed, Krauss made Tessar 35mm f\/3.5 at f\/22 after looking at the soil sample under a Leitz stereo microscope using 12.5x, 50x, and 100x magnification. The Tessar shot is about 25x magnification before any computer screen enlargement. According to the web, the tiny ball is either a slug or snail egg. \u00a0Scott&#8217;s (the seed and fertilizer people) say it is a slow release fertilizer bead. I tend to agree with Scott&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny 35mm f\/3.5 Tessar lens has an RMS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sizes.com\/library\/technology\/RMS_thread.htm\">Royal Microscopal Society<\/a>) thread (a standard once used by all microscope makers). I used a Leitz RMS to 39mm adapter, Leitz Bellows II, Visoflex housing II, Leitz M-mount to Sony E-mount adapter and my Sony NEX-6 camera to make this image.<\/p>\n<p>Just as a note, in the early years of photography, Zeiss licensed other camera lens makers to use their lens designs. Licensing over-came duty penalties, scarce resources in house, and spread the name and prestige of Zeiss designs world wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. I took this shot in October 2014 with a century old Zeiss licensed, Krauss made Tessar 35mm f\/3.5 at f\/22 after looking at the soil sample under a Leitz stereo microscope using 12.5x, 50x, and 100x magnification. The Tessar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/up-close-and-personal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[3145,3143,3144,63,1171,23],"class_list":["post-17425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-35mm-f-3-5","tag-century","tag-krauss","tag-leitz","tag-tessar","tag-zeiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17433,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions\/17433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}