Photo taken October 2, 2015 at 6:32 PM of a glacial erratic on the property around Heart Lake (Lake owned by the Adirondack Mountain Club), Lake Placid, NY. Image taken with my tripod mounted A7r and my Minolta CLE MC 40mm f2 M-Rokkor lens. ISO 400, lens set to approximately f8 for 0.5 seconds. Processed in LR6.
I know these are not to the same standard as many on this thread but maybe they are of some interest, as they are with very "alternative" lenses. People often say enlarger lenses make decent close up lenses, so I got a £2.49 M39 to M42 adapter and used it to connect a very old Nikon 50mm enlarger lens (no idea how to identify it) and an "E.ECHO" 80mm enlarger lens onto some old Russian bellows and a stack of extension tubes on an A7II, via Metabones and an M42 to EF adapter. I then took these pics of a spider that had met its end when it couldn't get out of a preserving pan in a cupboard. I hope it is not against the rules to post the picture of the setup, taken with an A6000. Crucially, the front of the bellows were resting on the worktop and the back on the tripod, essential to stop vibration and I adjusted height with mats and bits of card. One is cropped a bit on the right hand side, but the other is the full frame.
I am not certain as I forgot to record when I changed lenses, but I think the more extreme close up is with the 50mm and the other with the 80mm. My reaction is that there is quite a bit of flare, and I have probably pushed the magnification more than I should, and the lighting (the LED light from a Sony flash unit, diffused with kitchen roll) was not ideal.
HelenaN wrote:
Suddenly felt that the photos I posted above need more work, so I deleted them and post these instead (sorry Peire, feel free to remove your like).
