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Is there anyone here with more insight about reversing lenses?

Started Nov 14, 2021 | Questions thread
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MacM545 Contributing Member • Posts: 780
Is there anyone here with more insight about reversing lenses?

Is there anyone here who has tried reversing various wide angle lenses? I've wondered about what a difference it would be among a short, optically simple design as opposed to a more complex (and higher quality) optical design that's larger. While comparing lenses of equivalent focal length, Presumably a short design such as pancake lens in particular means less problem with WD, while the larger and optically superior design means less diffraction- although, the initial minimum WD of the lenses is probably also important. Reversing a lens is easy, but there are still questions in my mind that don't go away because there's still a complex technical aspect to all of this.

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