Hi Bill (and group),
Does 50/1.8 MiJ with cardboard extension tube (OK, it was a toilet roll!)
meet your criteria?
http://dylansphotopage.tripod.com/macro/source/3.html
Dylan (back on the digest after 2 years off-list)
Bill wrote:
>I've thought about using a 50mm "normal" lens to do a series of macro
images
>to illustrate one doesn't have to do as some of us have (yes, you know I'm
>included in the group) done and get every piece of macro gear available and
then
>some. You could just focus as close as the 50mm will go, you could use 1
or
>more close up lenses, you could us a reversing ring, you could use one or
more
>extension rings, you could use a bellows, you could use the auto
telescoping
>extension tube and you could use various combinations of the above and more
.
>it would be an interesting project. It might be an interesting project to
>present to a group of photographers and ask them to guess which lens you
used
>for each photograph. The point being to illustrate the versatility of a
lens
>everyone has. Maybe that would be a good TOPE, only 50mm non-macro,
macros.
>Bill Barber
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