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Cheaper Macro options

Started Jun 11, 2020 | Discussions thread
JosephScha Veteran Member • Posts: 7,249
Re: Cheaper Macro options
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I use 10mm and 16mm (sometimes both) extension rings.

16mm ring behind the 42.5mm f/1.7 (at f/8) just barely fits a 35mm slide frame, or a negative. I've done lots of rephotographing both, because I have lots of old slides and color negatives from my father.

16mm and 10mm behind the Sigma 60mm f/2.8 roughly the same, also very nice to use.

Of course (as you probably know) you can't put 26mm of macro rings behind a 25mm lens, because there will be no place in front of the lens that can achieve focus.

I might as will stick in an example. This is photographed 35mm slide from fall of 1978, of my parents.

1978 slide, rephotographed - slightly cropped to eliminate cardboard frame edges

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