if your enlarger lens is good old M39 you can pick up a cheap used Zörk Mini Macro Helix along with am M39 adaptor, some M42 extension tubes or an M42 bellows and a M42 to PK adaptor. with a little luck you can get all that for under $150 and it will let you focus and shoot with enlarger lenses just fine. You could even do it w/o the Zörk with just an M42 to M39 adaptor if you can find one.
2011/2/11, Glen Berry <[email protected]>: > I just realized that I have a lens-reversing adapter. I just mounted a > Pentax 50mm f2.0 lens on my camera backwards, and it gave fairly > impressive results. When shooting coins, a US quarter will almost > totally span the narrow dimension of the frame. There is just a very > tiny amount of space left on both sides of the coin. > > Using this same adapter, along with a special adapter plate for my old > Omega enlarger, I can mount my Pentax DSLR in place of my enlarger head. > This will let me shoot high-magnification macro through my EL-Nikkor > enlarging lens. With the camera mounted on the enlarger it's not > terribly portable, but I can definitely make use of this here at home. > > These are some things I can make good use of right now, until I get more > elaborate macro gear. :) > > I want to think everyone for their macro lens suggestions. You've all > been very helpful! > > > . > > -- > 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. > -- Cheers Ecke ----------------------------------------- Cameras don’t shoot people. Photographers shoot people. -- 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.
