New Camera

[Baron Collins-Hill]

i got a new camera (canon powershot S2 SI) and have been experimenting with the super macro.

here goes

A9 Inlay:

[Baron Collins-Hill]

A9 Tailpiece:

[Baron Collins-Hill]

My Personal Favorite:

[Baron Collins-Hill]

A9 Grain:

[Baron Collins-Hill]

Stewmac Campfire Grain:

[mandoman15]

cool, nice to see your hard at work on the harmonograph

[Stephanie Reiser]

Macro-lens, my foot - that thing is a microscope!
Wow!

[Lane Pryce]

Cool pics. Did you use a tripod for those shots? I just purchased a Fujifilm Finepix F470 something or other. It has some kind of funky super close macro lens too. I need to try it out on something. Lp

[Jim MacDaniel]

Macro-lens, my foot - that thing is a microscope!
Wow!
Yeah -- I think I saw DNA in that fifth pic.
(Does wood have DNA? #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif )

[grandmainger]

Yeah -- I think I saw DNA in that fifth pic.
(Does wood have DNA? #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif )
Yes, wood has DNA. All living things have DNA.

Viruses (Virii) have a different kind of DNA (RNA) and are therefore not really "alive"... Everything else has DNA: bacteria, fungi, plants, animals, etc...

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Germain

[straight-a]

WOW! Love that tailpiece shot!

[dang]

grandmainger--I hate to even go here, but as a plant biochemist I have to disagree with your statement that wood has DNA. It HAD DNA....

The area of a tree inside of the cambium layer in a tree is xylem, or wood. Xylem tissue is initially alive, but looses it's cellular contents and becomes a hollow tube to become a functioning water conducting tube. There may be a little DNA around, but not much-probably only in specialized cells. It would be too energetically expensive to maintain that much DNA in a tissue that is mainly for structural support/water conductivity...

wow, I'm a geek http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[grandmainger]

grandmainger--I hate to even go here, but as a plant biochemist I have to disagree with your statement that wood has DNA. It HAD DNA....

The area of a tree inside of the cambium layer in a tree is xylem, or wood. Xylem tissue is initially alive, but looses it's cellular contents and becomes a hollow tube to become a functioning water conducting tube. There may be a little DNA around, but not much-probably only in specialized cells. It would be too energetically expensive to maintain that much DNA in a tissue that is mainly for structural support/water conductivity...

wow, I'm a geek
Tee hee http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

You're right dang, of course. There will be traces because it's probably to expensive to remove completely.

And while we're geeking, jestanek pointed out to me quite rightly that "Viruses may have single stranded DNA or double stranded DNA or RNA. They come in all flavors. They can be deadly, a nuisance, or helpful for genetic engineering experiments."

I never thought we'd go that deep, but this is a thread about looking really close at small details! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

I guess we have specialists in everything!
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Germain

[PhilGE]

Wait, wait... I used recently issued filtering software to analyze the image and found that, yes, some DNA is perceivable...

[Darryl Wolfe]

Phish, is the macro an accessory, or are you simply utilizing the telephoto capability of the camera?

[mandopete]

Really cool close-ups!

[levin4now]

Some good band names could come from this disussion....


The single-strand deoxyribonucleic macro men.
Mighty Chondrian and the organelles.