Some Amazing Facts For Macro Lovers

SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
edited April 13, 2006 in Holy Macro
Hi folks........ I know many of you are interested in Macro.
Recently while over at Fred Miranda's site I came across a wonderful article written and photographed by Thom Hicks.

It's titled "It Makes No Difference" and Thom has put in a lot of time and effort to show folks Macro shots done with many different combinations of Lenses, Extention Tubes, Reversed Lenses etc.

I believe you will be amazed at Thom's post, and surprised at some of the lenses he actually uses to do his Macro Shots....... Skippy (Australia) :D

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/367486
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  • NetgardenNetgarden Registered Users Posts: 829 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2006
    Skippy, this is wonderful, thanks!thumb.gif
    Skippy wrote:
    Hi folks........ I know many of you are interested in Macro.
    Recently while over at Fred Miranda's site I came across a wonderful article written and photographed by Thom Hicks.

    It's titled "It Makes No Difference" and Thom has put in a lot of time and effort to show folks Macro shots done with many different combinations of Lenses, Extention Tubes, Reversed Lenses etc.

    I believe you will be amazed at Thom's post, and surprised at some of the lenses he actually uses to do his Macro Shots....... Skippy (Australia) :D

    http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/367486
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2006
    Great Shots
    Netgarden wrote:
    Skippy, this is wonderful, thanks!thumb.gif


    He does some pretty amazing work.......was you surprised at the lenses he was actually using??? I was.......... Skippy (Australia)
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    :skippy Everyone has the right to be stupid, but some people just abuse the privilege :dgrin
  • Red BullRed Bull Registered Users Posts: 719 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2006
    Wow! Thanks for posting that. I would have never guessed that some of those were only reversed 50's!
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  • LuckyBobLuckyBob Registered Users Posts: 273 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2006
    headscratch.gif The link to how he mounted his 50mm reverse direct to the camera is broken for me; anybody else? The link he posted: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/378097. Everything I can find on Goolge is for an FD camera, not an EOS one like I have :(

    Great stuff though - I want to try it :D
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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2006
    LuckyBob wrote:
    headscratch.gif The link to how he mounted his 50mm reverse direct to the camera is broken for me; anybody else? The link he posted: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/378097. Everything I can find on Goolge is for an FD camera, not an EOS one like I have :(

    Great stuff though - I want to try it :D

    The link didn't work for me either, but what a great series Skippy!!! Amazing shots and choices of lenses. Sure gets you thinking about the possibilities, doesn't it??? thumb.gif
  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2006
    He does take amazing pics with whatever he uses. One comment though- he doesn't mention the differences in focus distance. With a reversed 50mm you will be focusing about 1" in front of the lens whilst with a 180macro and Tcon you will be at least 12" away if not further- does make a difference to skittish bugs. That is essentially what you are paying for in a macro lens.
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