Understanding Macro Couplers

[kat]

Keep us updated on how you make out with your purchase!!! I'm interested to hear. Didn't know you could even do that till I read this thread/and the other sight.

[ericmark]

Many years ago around 1981 I used a fixed 135 and 50mm front to front to take macro and it was better than plain reversing ring on single lens. There was a little focus. Where with single lens you have to crank the tripod up and down.

I now have lens reversing ring for 28mm fixed lens and bellows plus close up lenses for the 18 - 55mm lens and where I can I use the close up lenses. The bellows tends to wag a bit but with a 400mm lens it does allow one to get reasonable distance from the subject when trying to catch bee in flower etc.

The magnification on the reversing lens with a 10m CCD is better than light microscope at 50x mag and with the ability to stop down gives better depth of field. However I can only use it with old lens as new one has no manual aperture control.

The light microscope with built in CCD has been a bit of a failure. No way to set aperture, only 1.5m and setting light is very poor as totally reliant on PC.

At greater than X50 then microscope starts to be better but up to X50 not impressed.

However once you go beyond 1 to 1 the subject matter is not really the type which one could hang on ones wall. Interesting yes. The working of a watch or leg of a fly are very interesting however having a 10 x 8 picture of fly leg on ones wall although a talking point is not really what I would consider fine art?