caryweeone wrote:ScottyP wrote:Just ordered a reversing ring off Amazon. Not even $6, worth a gamble, right? Anyone have experience using that for macro?
Wow, I just looked up what that does. I am super interested in how that works.
I'd be interested in reversing a few lens I have so I can get close ups with them.
Please post some pics here, I'm very curious to see some normal vs reversed images.
So I finally got a 58-55mm step down ring so I could actually use the reversing ring yesterday. Did some testing and wow - it's
very macro! Almost too much for Transformers with my camera, I guess the sensor size really matters with this and with mine being smaller, the reproduction is much greater than 1:1.
For instance, this is MMC Greatshot's head through the macro lens. Camera was maybe an inch away from the toy:
So close up you can see the red plastic of the body reflecting onto the face!
The other major problem is total loss of aperture control because the camera can't talk to the lens. Going to have to buy an aperture control ring next, which still makes this much cheaper than a Macro lens but only if it helps make this a practical exercise. Without this control, the lens is defaulting to only its smallest aperture, giving a brutal, unforgiving, teeny tiny depth of field as seen in these failed attempts at a close-up:
Additionally, I have to crank the exposure time up to see any sort of preview of the shot before taking it, then crank it back down since it comes out entirely too bright at say, a ten second exposure, and hope it had it low or high enough. If not, time to re-do, which is annoying since all I have is a ten second timer to avoid camera movement.
So yes, this is a tough exercise so far, and if a manual aperture control ring doesn't help, probably a failure for all except the most extreme closeups that I'll ever want to get. I can see some contexts where this would be excellent, but Transformers photography may not be one of them.