Super Macro
Ever since my business partner defected from the forces of evil to join the righteous side of the fight we've looked forward to pooling the company's funds towards a lens that we could both use. Today, we broke the seal and purchased a new piece of glass.
We picked up the Nikon AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED. That hodgepodge of letters and numbers all add up to one thing: Awesome. Obviously, Nikon has expanded their Japanese plant to extract Awesomeness from the source and distill it into easy to purchase units. The photo above is not a crop, it is the full frame image, and a version exists that is so large and sharp you can make out the dust on my sensor. I giggle whenever I think that this picture can be printed 2 feet across and still resolve better than 150 dpi.
Of course we didn't stick to using just the lens. The photo above also utilized a 1.7 teleconverter, which pushed our reproduction ratio well past 1:1. To end the night we reverse mounted a 50mm lens, and filled the entire frame of the D3, with less than 8mm of a tape measure. That means with the ridiculous setup, we are projecting the image 4.5 times bigger than it is in real life.
This flickr set is where I've put some the the results of our experimentation and where I will continue to add new miracles when they are found.
