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09/06/2005 10:51:24 PM · #1 |
okay, I'm sure this has been asked 1000 times before but...
I am not particularly interested in macro photography. However, on occasion I can see the need for it. I just don't want to invest a lot of money into macro lenses. I bought the autofocus extension tubes, and I hate them. There is no reason to have autofocus on them, I still manually focus at that closeness. I have also heard something about "reverse mounting" a lens. My lens aresenol includes the EF-s 17-85, the 70-200 f4L, and the 50mm f1.8. Can I reverse mount some of these? and how does that work? do you reverse mount the lens to the camera, or turn it backwards an mount it on another lens? Anyway, my choices are getting manual focus tubes (that provide a very, very narrow dop) or try this reverse mounting system... any advice? does reverse mounting do narrow dop as well?
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09/06/2005 11:09:19 PM · #2 |
| You can find some more information about reverse mounting in this thread |
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09/06/2005 11:43:34 PM · #3 |
You say you hate the extension tubes, but you don't elaborate... is it because AF works poorly in this situation? I agree that there is no reason to maintain AF when doing macro in most cases. So if this bothers you, just switch the lens to manual focus.
Your other good choice would be the Canon 250D and/or 500D diopters. Reversing a lens works well too, but I guarantee you won't enjoy futzing with such a setup if you aren't "into" macro. Reversing lenses typically gives very high magnification, and very short working distances, resulting in difficulty lighting the subject and razor-thin DoF.
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09/07/2005 12:14:57 AM · #4 |
also you may need to check your diopter setting, its not as critical for auto focus work, but for namual focus its pretty necessary to have it set right or your gonna get all of your manual focuse shots out of focus
I cant find the link that tells you how to set the diopter. I know I posted it a while back ago but cant find it
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