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Vintage Philips lamp: glowing filament in extreme close up
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Iain P



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Location: St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK
PostPosted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:47 pm    Post subject: Vintage Philips lamp: glowing filament in extreme close up Reply with quote
I bough this for £2 in a reclaim/vintage antique centre in Lincoln, UK, last week



You can't capture the lit filament and the support in a single image, of course, due to the dynamic range, but taking 5 bracketed shots and combining in the excellent software Photomatix Essentials produces this:



This was taken with a 1:1 macro lens. To show detail in the filament itself you have to add a 2X converter. Lovely colours!



And this was produced by stacking several images in Zerene Stacker, and with some post-processing in Astra Image Plus. The filament really shows up well:

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