VERY cheap macro!

http://www.photocritic​.org/macro.html

hehe

some people got waaaay toooo much time on their hands hahha. great find

Super Macro EF Lens with Pringles Can?

Very creative:

http://www.photocritic​.org/macro.html

Macro lens made out of a pringles can- check it out!

Look at this! This guy apparently made a macro lens out of a pringles can and a few lens covers.

Look at the sample shots, they're suprisingly good.

http://www.photocritic​.org/macro.html

brilliant!

I gotta hand it to him...that was pretty good. Seems to work nicely too!

I posted this about 2 hours ago, but it died =[But yes, that guy is brilliant!

sweet! makes me want to go buy a ten foot section of pvc tubing and some duct tape.

Cool, but I would have to find something more permanent than a pringles tube....not a bad idea though.

psykopyro wrote:
Look at this! This guy apparently made a macro lens out of a pringles can and a few lens covers.

Look at the sample shots, they're suprisingly good.

http://www.photocritic​.org/macro.html

A set of independent tubes are not that expensive!

Haha,cool

There are actually a whole bunch of different ways to acheive macro photography on a budget.
One way that might be particularly usefull to canon DSLR owners is that a reversed 18-55 kit lens can give seriously close magnification,very similar to that shown in this guys article -without the massive tube.
Just buy one of those supercheap 58mm reversing rings off ebay.

Think I will stick to my ef100 macro.

Threads merged . . .

I wonder if you could modify the design to take two tube, one slides in the other to use for focusing? Also it may be possible to mount an old filter with or without the glass on the end so you can screw a real lens on, instead of just a friction hold or duct tape.

There are also a number of people who have sucessfully made electrical adaptors to allow aperture control on a EF lens when it is reverse mounted, which would make it a very nice setup indeed

FlyingPete wrote:
There are also a number of people who have sucessfully made electrical adaptors to allow aperture control on a EF lens when it is reverse mounted, which would make it a very nice setup indeed

It's a pity the chinese don't offer something like this -they offer every other kind of cheap adapter.
Novoflex make a good EOS lens reverser but it costs a bomb . The home made ones sure are cool but the effort needed makes it a real enthusiast project.