Couldn't wait to share this with you guys! ; Click the photo and it will take you to my flickr page where you can see how I did it! ; It's really cool! No fancy tricks. ; No equipment. ; This is SOOC, using only the 50mm/1.8. Editor's Note... The product that Roni references in her post can be obtained from Amazon.com with THIS LINK
A most excellent idea, Roni! ; Here's the Nikon list for you Craig. [amazonsearch]reverse mount adapter for nikon[/amazonsearch] The 52mm one works with the 50mm f/1.8 and 18-55 and 55-200 kit lenses.
It's neat how that works. ; Took me a couple of tries to figure out you only need to use the search term between the tags. ; Very slick.
I have another idea! ; Doing it this way, you can't change your aperture at all, obviously. ; But, there are some really nice FD lenses for old film cameras that you could use and then have the ability to manually focus...either wide open or stopped down. ; There are some really GREAT lenses on ebay that can be had for $9.99 or a little more, and it doesn't matter if they are FD lenses because with the reverse lens mount, they are going on backwards anyway. ; You can get some really stellar glass for super cheap, and then have an even more amazing macro lens. ; Still under 30 bucks for the whole deal. I'm gonna try it. ; I'll be sure and let you know how it works!
You can also get a filter ring that allows you to mount a lens to the front of another creating a super-macro lens allowing you to get really close to your subject. ; It also allows you to get a super thin depth of field. ; The problem is that by mounting two lenses together, you greatly decrease the amount of light that's getting to the sensor so you need a lot of light on your subject to make it work.
