I bought 2 49mm Cokin adapters and glued them together to form a reverse
adapter. Costed $6. The 50/1.4 on the 100/2.8 is rather nice.... :-)
Thanks for your help, Andrew!
Mickey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Gullen" <andrew.gullen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:05 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Reverse lens questions
> on 2004/05/25 3:00 PM, Wim Verheyen at aemit@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >> I've put a 50/1.4 on a 200/4, which gives 4X Magnification.
> >
> > I've been trying similar things in the past and they never quite
satisfied me.
>
> I got some nice shots of ants. I've also seen some gorgeous work by Simon
> Gardner(?) in Photo Techniques Vol. 24, No. 1: "Coupling 35mm Lenses for
> High-Mag Photography". Disclaimer: I know the author through a mutual
> friend; it was he and his images that convinced me to try this. I've been
> using more conventional macro gear; perhaps I should go do this again.
>
> Some more downsides:
> - You can't mount a macro flash on the mounting flange
> - The thick mounting flange tends to block light
>
> BTW (to Mick) you can test out the idea (sort of) by just holding the
lenses
> together. Best to do this only with lenses of the same thread size.
>
> > http://users.skynet.be/aemit/photo/macro.html ->
> > If using a teleconverter, always put it between the camera body and the
> > extension, not between the extension and the lens, this doesn't work.
>
> Well, that doubles the focal length of the lens, and means you need twice
> the extension, but should give you twice the working distance. I'll have
to
> go try this. Or did you get poor results?
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
>
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