Tripped across a piece of equipment that I was not aware of this morning and (just in case others didn't know about it either) thought I would pass it along.
It is a AF extension tube that works even with SDM lenses. It is called the Kenko Uniplus Tube 25 and it was once made for Pentax, now extremely hard to find. As good fortune would have it, I no more than learned about it and looked and there was one listed on ePray (from Japan) that had only 9 views when I snatched it up (Buy It Now). I'm passing this info along because it can turn your DA* 50-135mm or even your DA 40 XS into a superb macro lens. If you don't believe me check out this French Pentaxian's work. If you only have time to look at ONE, check this out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15251430@N03/9168541564/ Here all ALL of his images tagged with Uniplus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fs999/tags/uniplus/ The macro shots taken with the DA 40 XS can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fs999/tags/pentaxda40mmf28xs/ Macros taken with the combo of the Uniplus Tube and the DA* 50-135mm are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fs999/tags/pentaxda50135mmf28sdm/ I don't own either of those two lenses. He tells me that the Uniplus Tube works with anything over 20mm (with a 20mm the subject is just 1 cm from the front of the lens). I'm curious to see how it works with reducing the minimum focusing distance when used with the Bigma (and how much of the infinity end you lose). If you really want to blow some time, FS999 has a lot of very engaging sets on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fs999/sets/ -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- 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.
