Macro with bellows
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After reading our extreme macro photography on a budget, quite a few of our readers were wondering how they can take their new-found obsessions further – what if you want to go more extreme? What if you aren’t on a shoestring budget?
Our friend Kjeld Olesen has all the answers – Bellows is where it’s at if you want to go into extreme macro.
You can pick up a set of bellows from your local camera shop, and they should be available in used photography stores as well, at reasonable prices. You can’t argue with Olesen’s results, and he even provides a super-handy guide how to fit the Olympus bellows he has to an EOS fitting. Nifty.
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Or you can make a lens kinda like the one I made. It is a combination of stacking rings and extension tubes.
Colby can guide me? n can i know do they have this for nikon?
Are these the same bellows we used for protection from contaminates while applying little resistance to machines???
My Macro budget is currently sat at £12 courtesty of a reversing ring I found on eBay. Bargain, admittedly not as good as the real thing (but that may be down to my own lack of steadiness hand-wise) but for the money, it’s a steal. Liking the Bellows idea…
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