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[Josh66]

The first one should give you a hint to what the second one is.

 

[Josh66]

One more...

Really like this one...

 

[Robin Usagani]

brush with red paint
Jug of water when you clean the brush?

 

[Josh66]

Nail polish.
(all three of them)

 

[Josh66]

Stand really far away from your computer, and it should make more sense - lol!

 

[Canosonic]

do you use a macro lens?
your abstract works are great.

 

[Josh66]

Thanks.

These were actually shot with a 70-200 (@200) with a 50 reversed onto the front of it.

A macro coupler ($10, at most) will let you mount 2 lenses to each other, face to face. The 200 - 50 combination gives me 4:1.



EDIT

These are old pictures, but this will give you an idea of what I'm talking about:

This is one of the pictures from that shoot:

It's an RFID chip. The chip you see there is 1mm square.

 

[Canosonic]

Wow, never heard of that! Thats really weird!
And it's just like a macro lens, except those 400$ stay in the pocket?

 

[Josh66]

...Well, I wouldn't exactly call it cheaper. Those two lenses together cost more than my 100mm macro lens. Just the 70-200 alone costs more than the macro lens, lol.

It probably is one of the cheapest ways to go past 1:1 though.

And heck - if you already have 2 or more lenses, why not? Ideally, you would want a long one and a short one. Long lens divided by short lens equals magnification. 200mm/50mm = 4:1
You don't want to go too extreme though - 4:1 is hard enough!

Working with this setup is pretty tricky...

I still don't have any focusing rails, so I have to focus by moving the subject up and down. DOF at f/32 is probably about a half a millimeter or so. The total focusing range possible (by turning the focusing ring) covers like maybe 1 or 2 mm, so you have to position the subject pretty damn close to where it needs to be.

I'd rather have the MP-E 65, lol! But, till then...