Extreme macro try

tom.ganc · Oct 16, 2008

Hi
I just bought 52mm lens coupling ring and I decided to try some extreme macro shoots.
I installed my 55-200mm vr on camera (zoomed it to 200mm) and I put my 50mm fully open (f/1.8) reversed.
It is pretty difficult to get sharp image, DOF is extremally narrow but take a look:

This is Nikon lens cap (52mm)

And this is print - font no10

I was quite impressed whan I saw it on computer
I need to try some dead bugs soon

dEARlEADER · Oct 16, 2008

great work!

khallene · Oct 16, 2008

Cool shots.

asc · Oct 16, 2008

WOW.
Tiny shooting. Looks fun.

sdesha · Oct 16, 2008

oh how neat!

eccs19 · Oct 16, 2008

Just don't say they were hand held.

tom.ganc · Oct 16, 2008

eccs19 said:
Just don't say they were hand held.

They were.

I used built in flash.
I was focusing by moving from and to the subject. You need to get really close with this lenses.

Photonic Harmony · Oct 17, 2008

Great close-ups, I cannot wait to pick up my new macro lens. Thanks for sharing.

BTilson · Oct 17, 2008

That is really cool! I've never heard of hooking two lenses together like that before.

tom.ganc · Oct 17, 2008

BTilson said:
That is really cool! I've never heard of hooking two lenses together like that before.

Hi
Read this. It should give you rough idea what I'm talking about.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...upling+lense&start=20&ndsp=20&um=1&hl=en&sa=N

BTilson · Oct 17, 2008

Very VERY cool. I am definitely going to give that a try. I need to get a reverser ring, I'd imagine that would work pretty well at the wide end of my 18-55, yes?

tom.ganc · Oct 17, 2008

BTilson said:
Very VERY cool. I am definitely going to give that a try. I need to get a reverser ring, I'd imagine that would work pretty well at the wide end of my 18-55, yes?

I'm not sure about your 18-55mm and reversing ring to be honest because I didn't try it with mine. Bus you should give it a go and see yourself.
Get 50mm f1.8 and coupling ring and screw it on top of yout 55-200mm. This will give you great effect.
Good luck

jbushee · Oct 20, 2008

Helicon Focus might help with DoF. You basically take a series of pic moving the focus point from front to back, and the software merges them together.