For anyone looking for cheap but ultra perfomance long macro setups (135mm-210mm range) on a budget, I would highly recommend a bellows setup and using a top quality enlarging lens as a taking lens. Yes a bellows is bulky, awkward, slow to work with, usually manual exposure, ususally manual aperture setting mode, etc. But you can easily put together one of these setups for real cheap that will put many camera mount macro lenses to shame. the reason why is that they have to do infinity well and arent telephotos, they are all long focus designs.
While Im sure rodenstocks and schniders made some good ones, the MC El-Nikkor F5.6 lenses are incredible and because darkrooms are essentially obsolete, you can buy them for very low money now. Yes, camera mount macro lenses are easier to work with, but for occasional use, or if you don't want to spend a grand, the bellows/enlarging lens combo is great at low cost alternative for the now and then macro shooter who still wants utmost quality. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Home Page - www.jchriso.com Join the Audio CD PLAYER DISCUSSION list - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
