Canon G5 Macro
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Canon G5 Macro
 
This macro test grew out of a project for work. I was charged to create a poster for aquatic invertebrates for one of our work areas. The size of the organisms ranged from around 3 to 20 mm. I had a Canon G5 plus several close-up filters and went to work. In addition to the filters, I used a Canon Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX, the camera was mounted to a Velbon Macro Slider attached to a copy stand. The filters were attached to the Canon G5 with a Lensmate 52mm adapter. The camera was zoomed to the longest telephoto, focus was manually adjusted to the closest focusing point, exposure was manually set to 1/250 and f8, ND filter on, camera set to ISO 50, the shutter was released after 2 secs using the self timer, and image saved as Canon RAW format. Here's a sample EXIF file. Included for each filter image is a 640x480 pixel crop of the center and upper right corner plus a 1024x768 pixel (click on image) image of the entire field. The image is of a twenty dollar bill.

Canon G5 no filter


Center          Corner

Canon 450D

Center          Corner

Canon 240D

Center          Corner

Canon 240D 450D

Center          Corner

Hoya +1

Center          Corner

Hoya +2

Center          Corner

Hoya +4

Center          Corner

Hoya +1 +2 +4

Center          Corner

Raynox 4x Macroscopic Lens

Center          Corner

All Lenses Stacked

Center          Corner

I have not intended this to be a scientific test between different close-up filters. These images are displayed to show what is possible using the Canon G5 and a few different filters. It is up to you to do your own evaluation. That said here are a few of my comments. The lower left corner is consistently the blurriest of the images. This may be because of the Canon or close-up lenses or it may be because I did not use a level to make sure the camera was parallel to the 20 dollar bill. Looking at the Canon G5 image (top image) you can see a little chromatic aberration along the left edge of the 7 and G.

Canon has replaced the 240D and 450D with the 250D and 500D filters. Raynox has discontinued making the 4x Macroscopic Lens.

Oh, here is the final product.

 

 
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