For those that are not familiar with the reversed 50 , here is a setup, you simple take a 50 mm lens and mount it in rev. to the front of the other lens by way of a coupler ring. This set up is used for pic's at greater than 1X life size .
I have a question. I tried reviersing my sigma 50 on my 28-135 and had my zoom lens set at 135 and found that when i stoped down to get more DOF there was a considerable amount of vigitting, any way around this?
Canon G3 (at full zoom of 140mm) with Pentax 50mm attached in reverse. This is a single shot with minimal post processing and relatively little cropping. http://www.pbase.com/image/18932277.jpg
Aphids, I've posted a similar one in the 180 mil thread before I realised that the 50 mil reversed macro freaks have their owh thread . Shot with the 180 mil Sigma, a 2x Sigma TC and a 50 mil Canon 1.4 reversed in front of the lens. Lit by two 420 EX's on a Novoflex flash bracket, Camera 10D, 1/50 @ f/32. Roughly 12:1, full frame 10D (no crop). Unfortunately DOF is near zero!
Wow. That looked so cool I had to see if my cam could do it. I took a shot of a dime (well... a Canadian dime so about 7.5 cents US) through a Fuji 55 mm lens. I think it worked quite well for a first try. I used scotch tape to hold the lens in place and balanced the camera on a book. I'll try a tripod and light now I see what can be achieved. Now I just have to figure out how you get those bugs to hold still and smile.
Heh, wow, didn't know i can do that I don't have coppling ring or something so i just handheld an old Minolta 35-70 manual zoom in front of my 100 f/2. Shot at f/22 with a bounced 420ex (it's a firelighter by the way ):
This is my first attempt at this. I need to get some couplers to try with some longer lenses. Some vignetting occured at the corners.
Digital Rebel with 18-55 kit lens at 55mm to camera mount, 50mm 1.8 II backwards(you'd laugh if you saw how it's mounted). Available light from desk lamp, iso400, f8, 1/2 sec
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