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DIY Macro Tilt Shift Extension Tube

Posted on August 7th, 2009 by zomie
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Tilt Lenses are an expensive proposition to most photographers and what if you want to do macro work with one? I have seen plenty of DIY tilt lens gizmos such as these made from different pluming parts:http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Tilt-Shift-DSLR-Camera-Lens/ and http://hackaday.com/2009/07/28/making-a-tilt-shift-lens/
Well neither of these do what I really wanted. I wanted to use my existing [...]

DIY Hacked Kit stacked Lens Filter

Posted on July 27th, 2009 by zomie
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I caught an interesting instructable where user nurglets created a stacked macro filter of sorts. They basically purchased a damaged kit lens from an auction site, and removed the rear lens assembly. The lens assembly then was attached to an old filter making a half stacked lens macro filter gizmo. It is [...]

DIY Point and Shoot Macro Lens

Posted on July 15th, 2009 by zomie
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Normally we typically write about DSLR equipment on macroreverse, but not everyone has that need to spend the money on a dslr let alone a reversal ring.   What do you do if you want to do extreme macro on a point and shoot?  Well apparently one method is to take apart a set of [...]

DIY Macro Lens/DIY Redbull Can Extension Tube

Posted on July 11th, 2009 by zomie
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I have written about do it yourself extension tubes before, but I came across this instructable where user BorisKafka basically built themselves a macro lens using a redbull can as a extension tube.  It is an extremely easy instructable.  They took a camera body cap and cut a hole in it.  They then glued a [...]

Another DIY Macro Reversal Ring but for a Canon

Posted on July 8th, 2009 by zomie
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I wrote last time about a nikon diy reverse macro ring adapter, so I felt it would be good to do the same when I stumbled upon a Canon version. I came across this on instructables from user jeoncs where they use an old 58mm Hoya Filter and a Canon EOS Tmount with some mighty putty [...]