Posted on August 7th, 2009 by zomie
Filed under Camera Rigs, DIY |
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by zomie
Filed under DIY, General, How To |
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]