Ancient reversed 50 held on end of 100mm

Hey all,

Well... This morning while cleaning out the storage room I came across my brothers old Canon FD 50mm f/1.4, that had been just laying around for years. After previously reading about the effects of reversing the 50mm I thought I'd try it out -- just holding the thing on the end of my 100mm macro.

I found it extremely difficult to capture anything in focus, especially with only one hand to balance the body -- so I got a few pieces of tape and stuck it to the end.

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...Which brings me to the question -- which 50mm would be best to purchase for this sort of thing?

Cheers,

Jiva.

Good shots
Jiva- any good quality 50mm lens will do as long as you can find a way of coupling it the macro lens. I did this with my old Pentax SMC manual 50mm lens. You could try it with the Kit lens at first - will still work pretty well.
Brian V.

Nice set of flies. I like the jumping spider shot best.

very cool, very cool, such smooth color in the pics