a bit difficult to predict how DOF will change as you stop down, and don't expect
the ground glass image to help a lot, unless you're eyesight is better than mine.
The Pentax bellows lens is a Macro design without a helical. They didn't put one
of their portrait lenses in a special bellows mount. (Mostly intuition on my part I suppose).
At 10:16 AM 1/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Why is that, Peter?
I happen to think it's a bit strange to put a macro lens on a bellows.
Almost everyone uses 'normal' lenses of one kind or another to attach
to the bellows. Or so it seems to me.
All depends on how big you want to magnify something. I'd say that if
you were interested in images of objects magnified to between what
you'd get with a 'normal' lens and bellows, and what you'd get with a
binocular microscope, then that would be bellows + macro lens time.
But other than that, I'd guess you'd be well served with most any of
your normal and longer lenses + bellows.
Just my ideas on the matter ~ not spoken as a professional bellowist! <g>
keith
Peter Alling wrote:
>
> I think it's just bizarre to put a 135 of no particular macro capability on
> a bellows system.
> At 10:35 PM 1/18/2003 +1100, you wrote:
> >You have got to see this<g>
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3001747326&category= 4687
> >
> >Bob Rapp
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