My macro lens

Antonio Correia · August 31, 2007

You know - some do - that I don't own a macro lens, yet.
But, following this site idea I built my own lens.

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The glue is not right for this purpose and after some shots the filter and the ring were apart.:cry
I glue them again and restarted. :rolleyes
The focus was done moving the camera shooting at view. When I had the focus: bang, bang...:D
I have spent 5 + 10 Euros from the filter which is still good because I did not brake it and when I will get my macro lens - the real one - I will detach it from the ring and it will be as good as new.

OffTopic · August 31, 2007

Now that's creative. So you left the glass in the filter rather than removing it? What filter did you use?

Let's see what it does!

edit - okay, I think those last few pics are examples, but I can't really tell what they are

Antonio Correia · August 31, 2007

OffTopic wrote:

Now that's creative. So you left the glass in the filter rather than removing it? What filter did you use?

Let's see what it does!

edit - okay, I think those last few pics are examples, but I can't really tell what they are

I was not criative because I followed the above link, the one I posted at the beginning of this thread.

I left the filter. It is an UV one. Harmless.

The photos are close ups of eys for this week Nikolai's assignment.
Thank you for commenting.
Nice weekend.

This is another example more "understadable"

OffTopic · August 31, 2007

Much better example! Works well, and that's much easier than trying to hold the reversed lens against the camera!

Too bad I don't have any old filters laying around or I'd love to give it a try.

Nikolai · August 31, 2007

Antonio,
This is damn near the best usage of the otherwise inferior kit lens I ever saw! Kudos!

Antonio Correia · August 31, 2007

Lori and Nikolai:

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D.Rodgers · August 31, 2007

Good job antonia

You chose the right lens ,before I bought a macro and tubes I killed two lenses and couldnt get as close as you..

Lord Vetinari · September 1, 2007

Excellent DIY Antonio

Do you pre-set the Aperture by fitting the lens normally and then removing it with the DOF preview button depressed ?
Brian V.

Antonio Correia · September 1, 2007

D.Rodgers wrote:

Good job antonia
You chose the right lens ,before I bought a macro and tubes I killed two lenses and couldnt get as close as you..

Rodgers, you just have to try again.

Thanks and have a nice wekend

Antonio Correia · September 1, 2007

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Excellent DIY Antonio
Do you pre-set the Aperture by fitting the lens normally and then removing it with the DOF preview button depressed ?
Brian V.

Good morning Brian.
I could remember your advice the first time:
Set the Aperture and remove the lens normally with the DOF preview button depressed.

However I have done it only once and then I didn't.
I just set the aperture at 200 and start shooting.
I looked at the preview and adjusted the speed down until I got a better picture.
I started to shoot RAW again after understanding by experience that it is good and returns excellent results.
As I do so, I adjusted the picture not in Photoshop program, but in the other program that runs before it. I think it is the CSR (where did I get this from ?)
In fact the aperture is 0 (zero) when shooting this way.

Sometimes, I move the flash away or near to get the picture when I come to the limits of speed.
I am using the ST-E2 and a 430 SX.

Today, I hope to be able to shoot more. I don't know. It's a glorious day outside. May be I'll go and try some eyes.:D

I am glad you liked this.
Have a nice weekend.

Lord Vetinari · September 1, 2007

Antonio Correia wrote:

Good morning Brian.
I could remember your advice the first time:
Set the Aperture and remove the lens normally with the DOF preview button depressed.

However I have done it only once and then I didn't.
I just set the aperture at 200 and start shooting.
I looked at the preview and adjusted the speed down until I got a better picture.
I started to shoot RAW again after understanding by experience that it is good and returns excellent results.
As I do so, I adjusted the picture not in Photoshop prohram, but in the other program that runs before it. I think it is the CSR (what did I get this from ?)
In fact the aperture is 0 (zero) when shooting this way.

Sometimes, I move the flash away or near to get the picture when I come to the limits of speed.
I am using the ST-E2 and a 430 SX.

Today, I hope to be able to shoot more. I don't know. It's a glorious day outside. May be I'll go and try some eyes.:D

I am glad you liked this.
Have a nice weekend.

Antonio - if you have not re-attached the lens normally since setting the aperture like that then that aperture is fixed at whatever it was originally set to. You will always see 00 as the aperture as there is no electrical connection no matter what the actual aperture is. Have a look through the lens and see if you can see the aperture blades

Brian V.

Skippy · September 1, 2007

Antonio Correia wrote:

You know - some do - that I don't own a macro lens, yet.
But, following this site idea I built my own lens.
=
The glue is not right for this purpose and after some shots the filter and the ring were apart.:cry
I glue them again and restarted.
The focus was done moving the camera shooting at view. When I had the focus: bang, bang...:D
I have spent 5 + 10 Euros from the filter which is still good because I did not brake it and when I will get my macro lens - the real one - I will detach it from the ring and it will be as good as new.

Hi there Antonio,
What a great tutorial you've put together here

Very clever, and looks like you got great results too.
No expensive outlay for those wanting to try this method too

Thank you for the time and effort you have put into this Tutorial.
.... Skippy

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Antonio Correia · September 1, 2007

Skippy wrote:

Hi there Antonio,
What a great tutorial you've put together here
Very clever, and looks like you got great results too.
No expensive outlay for those wanting to try this method too

Thank you for the time and effort you have put into this Tutorial.
.... Skippy
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Thank you Skippy for the kind words:D
But remember that the credits are not mines.
I just did what was sugested at this site.
Cheers.

D.Rodgers · September 1, 2007

Antonio Correia wrote:

Rodgers, you just have to try again.
Thanks and have a nice wekend

No thanks

i'm happy with what I have and no more old glass laying around..
Happy shooting..

Antonio Correia · September 1, 2007

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Antonio - if you have not re-attached the lens normally since setting the aperture like that then that aperture is fixed at whatever it was originally set to. You will always see 00 as the aperture as there is no electrical connection no matter what the actual aperture is. Have a look through the lens and see if you can see the aperture blades
Brian V.

Brian. Good afternoon

I have been looking carefully and I have not seen the blades !

Well, this time I placed the lens in correct position and set the aperture to f/5.6.
Then I shot these 2 pictures here - lens inverted - which give us a notion of what we get with the inverted piece of glass, as it introduces a scale factor just like I did before with the pilot shot.

Observe, how shallow is the DOF ! Amazing.

Thank you Brian !

Antonio Correia · September 1, 2007

How about these Brian, for a beginner ?
Not too sharp I'm afraid. the bees were very quick on the flower and I was using f/5.6. May be I should have used a smaller aperture...

And there is many own shadow ... :cry

Awais Yaqub · September 1, 2007

Wonderful !!
Great idea

My macro lens

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