{"id":84,"date":"2007-08-26T20:24:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T04:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2007\/08\/26\/poor-mans-macro-take-2\/"},"modified":"2007-08-26T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T04:29:32","slug":"poor-mans-macro-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2007\/08\/26\/poor-mans-macro-take-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Man’s Macro, Take 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Immobile\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After my first attempts at the Poor Man’s Macro<\/a>, I decided to give it another try with my new camera. At some point in the past couple of weeks it dawned on me that I had an old Canon T70<\/a> with a 50mm lens on it that I could use for macro shots. The only problem was finding the camera. It turned out to be stashed in the attic with my wife’s old Pentax. Both were great cameras that we used until they stopped working. <\/p>\n

I pulled the lens off my camera, but couldn’t figure out how to open the aperture all the way. When the lens is off the camera, the aperture closes down, which makes the lens useless for the Poor Man’s Macro. Luckily my wife’s old Pentax also had a 50mm lens that didn’t close down when off the camera. So, now I have a second lens I can reverse without taking the 18-55mm lens off my camera.<\/p>\n

To take this shot I simply held the 50mm lens in front of my regular lens, but reversed. I’m still unsure of whether to use a large or small aperture on the normal lens. The depth of field is already compressed, and the slightest movement forward or backward changes the focus. I think the compressed depth of field comes from the reverse lens since the aperture is wide open. I don’t think the aperture on the normal lens matters. I’m also unsure of where to focus, and if changing the focus on the reverse lens matters. I need to experiment more with the focus ring of both lenses to see how they impact the images. Right now I just move closer or farther from the subject to change the focal point. <\/p>\n

It is somewhat difficult to hold the reverse lens in the right place. An adapter of some kind would help, but since the lenses are different sizes I doubt I can find a reversing ring that would work. I may have to build my own. Having the reverse lens actually mounted on the normal lens would allow me to experiment with changing both focus rings. I’ll keep playing with this technique to see what works best for me. <\/p>\n

I took a lot of pictures, but this is the only one that worked out. I converted it to monochrome in Digital Photo Professional and did some contrast adjustment. <\/p>\n

Shot Details:<\/h3>\n

Taken August 23, 2007.
\nNormal lens: 55mm
\nReversed lens: 50mm
\n1\/50 shutter speed, f5.6, ISO 800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After my first attempts at the Poor Man’s Macro, I decided to give it another try with my new camera. At some point in the past couple of weeks it dawned on me that I had an old Canon T70 with a 50mm lens on it that I could use for macro shots. The only … Continue reading “Poor Man’s Macro, Take 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,24,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}