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Macro, anyone?

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 9:46 am
by GrahamS
I was fooling around and came up with these different macro setups, proving that anything is possible.

Nikon D7100 with manual extension tubes and Nikkor-S 50mm f1.4 manual focus lens.
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Nikon D7100 with Nikon F - M39 adaptor and Canon M39 extension tubes with El-Nikkor 50mm f4.0 enlarger lens.
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Nikon D7100 with M42 adaptor ring and Praktica bellows with Jupiter 8 50mm f2.0 lens mounted on macro focussing rail.
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Pentax K10D with Praktica M42 bellows and TT&H f6.3 six inch anastigmat.
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Re: Macro, anyone?

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:30 am
by Julio1fer
Awesome setups, Graham! The Pentax one is quite intriguing.

Re: Macro, anyone?

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:19 pm
by GrahamS
Julio1fer wrote:Awesome setups, Graham! The Pentax one is quite intriguing.
It was just for fun, Julio. The effective f stop was somewhere around f128! Only the very centre of the image circle was used, of course! The lens is for a 6x8 plate.

Re: Macro, anyone?

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:59 pm
by LarryD
Total coolness.

Re: Macro, anyone?

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 9:23 pm
by PFMcFarland
Nothing like re-purposing an old dial set lens. Those are some neat lash-ups, Graham.

PF

Re: Macro, anyone?

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 8:26 am
by Philip
Wow.

Re: Macro, anyone?

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:59 am
by Bennybee
Cool stuff. I'm accumulating some macro gear myself, but have not yet much results worth showing. I also visit some interesting websites regularly.

Re: Macro, anyone?

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:40 pm
by scott
I don't have any pictures of the rigs but for a while I was shooting with stacked lenses, everything from a Supertak 135 reversed on a Takumar 200 to an enlarging lens duct taped to the front of a Canon 75-300 zoom. All effective, all fun.

Re: Macro, anyone?

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:40 am
by Bennybee
Been digging in the subject of macro lately and found very good information on extreme-macro.co.uk