Back to photostream

Old School Macro Lens 2

Until I get a "real" macro lens, I'm winging it with this REAL Old School, "poor mans macro" setup.

It consists of a 43 year old 55mm f1.8 Super Takumar 'standard' lens (from my 1968 era Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic camera) coupled to a simple 30mm extension tube, finally terminating in an inexpensive M42 to Nikon F mount adaptor.

This combo, while it will neither auto-focus or 'meter' in any mode (that never stopped me before!) produces tack- sharp, very high resolution macro images of apprx. 1.25:1 magnification factor on my Nikon D90.

I'll be posting a few test images I obtained with this set-up shortly!

3,142 views
0 faves
0 comments
Uploaded on September 18, 2011
Taken on September 18, 2011