so I started playing with my 18-55 IS reversed. Its nice having a zoom adjustable macro, I just set it on MF and turn the whole lens for focus adjustments.

I think this was around 24mm. 18mm is much closer (GOD almost fills the frame), but DOF is so hard to work with even at f/16.



jjswee, I've learned that you really need sun light (outside or window) to be able to see. I also draped a piece of white paper over my flash to direct the light more down.

where did you get your adapters from?

my 58mm reverse was about $7 from dealextreme.com just takes a week or so from HK

wow! this is some crazy stuff! pretty cool!

To bad I only have one lens... lol.

Originally Posted by AWD FTW!

it works with one lens. You have the 18-55mm right? thats what I have and it works. The dof is really small tho. But its fun

so what, just flip the lens around off the body and shoot without the lens unattached to the camera, just held up to the body.? Will the camera even fire with the lens off the body?

Originally Posted by AWD FTW!

You can only shoot at wide open tho.

1) Set your camera to Aperture Priority mode (AV)
2) Set your lens to MF & Infinity
3) Set desired aperture (I suggest f/8-16 to start. REMEMBER, your DOF is going to be extremely thin once the lens is flipped to macro, but a high # also means it will be harder to see your subject without adequate lighting)
4) Press and hold the DOF Preview button (on Canon its the small button on the bottom left (behind) of the camera near the larger button to release the lens from the mount). You should be able to see the aperture blades inside the lens.
5) While holding DOF Preview, unmount the lens.
6) Reverse lens (mount with a mount, or hold carefully)
7) Move the camera until you get focus
8) Take photo

That's some tight stuff there...


no really it is tight, you can almost draw a line across the screen for the DOF.

while I was playing on deal extreme a little earlier today. I came across this: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.2325

do you think this would work?

Well although its not a Reversed lens, those extention tubes will get you pretty high mag on normal lenses. Usually 1:1 occurs around the FL of the lens, in extention tubes. IE: 35mm lens hits 1:1 with 35mm of extension, 50mm lens with 50mm of extension.
This is also why usually a 100mm macro isnt F2.8 at 1:1, because it has so much internal extension, that its f5.6. same with these tubes. Youll loose about 3 stops with all the tubes added, and youll be reading F0.0 in the viewfinder (no electrical contacts) but it should still meter properly (shutter speeds that is) and youll have to MF but AF wont work at those mag's anyway. only problem is that youll always be shooting wide open.

Originally Posted by SlvrScoobie

Well although its not a Reversed lens, those extention tubes will get you pretty high mag on normal lenses. Usually 1:1 occurs around the FL of the lens, in extention tubes. IE: 35mm lens hits 1:1 with 35mm of extension, 50mm lens with 50mm of extension.
This is also why usually a 100mm macro isnt F2.8 at 1:1, because it has so much internal extension, that its f5.6. same with these tubes. Youll loose about 3 stops with all the tubes added, and youll be reading F0.0 in the viewfinder (no electrical contacts) but it should still meter properly (shutter speeds that is) and youll have to MF but AF wont work at those mag's anyway. only problem is that youll always be shooting wide open.

true, but this just looks like something that would possibly make life a little easier I would think...