Tell your friend it's a great pic, Sylwek. :-) I'm looking for something to achieve ca. 4x magnification. I have a bellows with a total extension of 130mm. That gives roughly 2.5x with a 50mm. A good 28mm lens would probably be optimal with a bellows, giving 4x at 112mm extension.
Or maybe the 31mm limited? The built-in lens hood is a PITA... However, a bellows solution is a second best. I hope to find an optically good combination of two stacked lenses to give 4x. It is so much more convenient in the field to use open-aperture metering...:-) So far I've tried FA 100/2.8 macro with FA* 24/2, and A*200/4 macro with FA 50/1.4. The latter is a lot better than the former, but still not quite there. Stopping down the 50mm to f/2 improves contrast, but introduce more optical errors with small apertures on the 200. This leads me to believe that the best 50mm would be the one that is the sharpest at full opening, whatever that may be... Jostein Quoting Sylwester Pietrzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jostein wrote on 19.12.05 12:34: > > > I'd be interested to know if you have some experiences with moderate > > wide-angles > > reversed on a bellows as well. > My friend who is well known macro photographer in Poland took a 13 mm lens > from 8 mm film camera and reverse mounted it on *istD achieving > magnification of roughly 7:1. Rsults are quite impressive like one here: > http://www.plfoto.com/zdjecie.php?picture=329380 > > -- > Balance is the ultimate good... > > Best Regards > Sylwek > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
