Macro Innovation!

lightpainter · 11th August 2008, 22:46

Last year whilst I was on holiday I dropped my camera breaking the stock lens, the mount pulled away from the barrel breaking the focus and aperture connections and the hoya filter glass was smashed, fortunately the actual lens elements where still OK!
Reading various threads on other forums it said that you can reverse mount a lens to get macro shots, being a tight old *** I thought that there must be a way to utilise my broken lens!
I used the body cap that fits on the camera when you have no lens mounted, drilled a hole in it and stuck the Hoya filter ring directly to it with epoxy glue.

A few shot using this setup!

Click the photo to see bigger!

Kandyman · 11th August 2008, 23:35

No i don't want to Click the photo to see bigger I'm scared.

The shots are fantastic, well done

The_Monk · 12th August 2008, 07:40

Very nice shots!! I was tempted to buy an adapter last year to do this with lens without modification but I never bought it. How did you find focusing? Did you find it difficult to hunt for clear focus or was it easy?

lightpainter · 12th August 2008, 07:49

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Originally Posted by The_Monk

Very nice shots!! I was tempted to buy an adapter last year to do this with lens without modification but I never bought it. How did you find focusing? Did you find it difficult to hunt for clear focus or was it easy?

No David, it’s a right ‘B’ I found it best to just set the lens and move the camera a little bit at a time, the first two are focus attacked from three shot in Photoshop using layers, but the last one was straight out of the camera, mind you I filled up a 4GB card to get them. Lol.

The_Monk · 12th August 2008, 08:01

Thats a shame! Impressive results though with what you have done, but doesn't sound pratical if you're out and about and want to snap a quick shot. Good use for a semi-broken lens though, at least you can get some use out of it instead of assigning it to the bin or expensive repair.

sworks · 12th August 2008, 18:03

wow! excellent result

mantianak · 13th August 2008, 07:05

Great shots and nice job on saving the broken lens! Welcome to the world of Macro

11th August 2008, 22:46	#1
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The_Monk I really should get out more....... - Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: - Posts: 2,586 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Very nice shots!! I was tempted to buy an adapter last year to do this with lens without modification but I never bought it. How did you find focusing? Did you find it difficult to hunt for clear focus or was it easy?

12th August 2008, 08:01	#5
The_Monk I really should get out more....... - Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: - Posts: 2,586 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Thats a shame! Impressive results though with what you have done, but doesn't sound pratical if you're out and about and want to snap a quick shot. Good use for a semi-broken lens though, at least you can get some use out of it instead of assigning it to the bin or expensive repair.

12th August 2008, 18:03	#6
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