Now that I have my bracket, I went out and took some bug shots with my reversed lens. Man, talk about impossible! I only managed to get 2 that I liked, and one is a bad shot that just shows how much magnification is actually possible. I found that if I zoom my Simga in (closer to 300mm) then the picture gets exponentially larger! For instance, this is a nearly-uncropped picture of a fly (remember, this was taken with tubes, a telemacro and a reversed lens):
The face isn't in focus because the DOF is so shallow that the face was too large!
This is a 100% crop of the leg hair so you can see what I mean:
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This is the only reversed-lens shot I got that is in focus. It is a midge:
Here is my normal macro. It is a really weirdly colored fly:
I'm experimenting on how to get more DOF at this magnification without getting the severe vignetting by stopping down the reversed lens. I'll keep you posted!
