[Bob Sanders]

I've been farting around with this all day. I think I've got it.

I went to look at macro lenses for the camera and a reasonable one costs $700!!

I was reading on the net that all you really have to do is reverse the lens and build an extension for it. I did my extension out of ABS and a few couplers. Pretty cheap with fairly good results:

Here's the letter E off of a quarter:

 

[lenaitch]

Cool! That's thinking out of the box.

 

[r0ckstarr]

Nice homemade extension tubes.

Something else you can do if you have 2 lenses. Get a reversal ring. It's just a little adapter that screws into your filter threads, and allows you to screw another lens onto that adapter with it's filter threads so that the front element of each lens is facing each other.

Do you have Lightroom and/or Photoshop? I've recently posted a tutorial on the Pentax board for stacking focus for macro shots.

http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/177-macro-photography/314313-focus-stacking-tutorial.html

 

[Bob Sanders]

Interesting read. Thank you.

I use Adobe photoshop (CS6)

 

[r0ckstarr]

Have you taken any more pics with your setup?

 

[Bob Sanders]

Have you taken any more pics with your setup?

No.... other than a bit of experimenting, haven't really had any time.

 

[ron45]

Ever get the feeling your in the wrong business..

Two pieces of glass and a couple plastic housing pieces that able to spin....

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchp...yid$abcat0410018&type=page&usc=All+Categories

 

[r0ckstarr]

Ever get the feeling your in the wrong business..

Two pieces of glass and a couple plastic housing pieces that able to spin....

My current photography outfit, acquired piece by piece slowly over time. I'm afraid to total up everything.

 

[ron45]

Whoa...
That looks like your serious....

 

[r0ckstarr]

Serious hobbyist. I was kind of hoping that by posting my pics, Bob would tell more about his gear. I've only ever shot Pentax, and I see Bob is using Canon. It's always interesting to hear about and see what lenses the other guys are using. Care to tell, Bob?