reverse mounting nifty fifty!

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hi im looking for some pictures/advise on reverse mounting a nikon nifty fifty 1.8 i dont have the lens just yet but it will/should be here next week sometime, what will i need to do this and also what results should i get from doing so? can i mount it on any lens?

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Gibbo
 
You'll need a reversing ring, its a Nikon F mount on one side and a thread the same size as the filter thread on the lens you want to reverse.
Obviously this mounts a lens backwards on the camera body, dunno about mounting a 50 backwards on to another lens, I guess you'd need male threads for both filter threads.
 
ive heard of a couple of people on here have done this and wouldnt mind seeing the results they have got from doing this. im not wanting to mount the 50 backwards straight on to the body but on to sat my 70-300 or 18-200 sigmas or also onto an 18-55 kit lens.
 
Oh carp.......I did do it, in the dim and distant past, and it wasn't entirely successful...:lol:....don't let these pics put you off, I'm sure its perfectly possible with the right lens combination.
Personally, I'll try the huge tube method next time, or bellows.
A 50 reverse mounted on an old 80-200 using I think, two cokin filter adapters and a roll of gaffer tape.:D

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That's pretty impressive. Didn't think the results could be so good.
 
WOW! that is cool looks easy enough to do then, i suppose the focusing distances change to then? that has made me even more excited about getting it now.
 
i suppose aswell if i use the 18-55 vr i wont get as much viggeting as they are the same size filter thread. i think.lol
 
I`ve done this on my old EOS 5, you can get superb results for about 3.00 for the ring. One thing to remember is you lose all connections to the camera, other than metering. :)
 
A.Gibson said:
WOW! that is cool looks easy enough to do then, i suppose the focusing distances change to then? that has made me even more excited about getting it now.
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Whaaat ! :lol:

what about all the distortion/barrel roll/circular cut off/out of focus/vignetting/........wasted tape...:lol:

The 80-200 obviously zooms, the focus is a combination of the tele and the 50.
Stop down from the camera, the 50 just makes a tiny hole to shoot through
The metering goes to pot, can't blame the camera for that, you can see my calcs written on the table.
 
They still look pretty damn good considering how it was done!
 
i know im dumb but im very eager to learn handy tips.lol
 
I got a reversing ring off fleaBay, only cost £4 or so. Here's a good example (a full-sized crop to be exact!) I took of a reversed 50mm's DOF wide open...mounted directly onto the camera body.

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One thing to remember, is the more you zoom, the closer you can focus :) That seems to be how it works anyway, mounting the 18-70mm kiot lens backeards on a sony a200, ill take some pics in a sec and post them :)
 
nice one mate. "readdeathdrinker" have you cropped the image that you posted??
 
anyone else got any reverse mounted pic they want to share?
 
Here's one from my D80 a few years back, this was a 55mm f1.4 Minolta lens reversed using gaffer tape, the nodes on the stamen are under 1mm in diameter, this is not a 100% crop:

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wow there what i call macro.lol some top shots there chaps i really am itching to get mine now think i may invest in either a set of bellows or adapter ring.
 
I'll join in with a question.....

I've got a Canon reversing adapter for a 52mm filter threaded lens. It's FD mount, not EOS but the centre is not a simple round hole through the adapter but is a full frame shaped rectangle. Why is the rectangular shape in there rather than a simple circle as they commonly are.
(the item is a Canon Macrophoto Adapter MA-52)

Bob
 
Its cool stuff like this that makes me realise that photography is going to be WAY more expensive than smoking, and poly worse for my health (well once the missus finds out what I've ordered :D
 
yep it can get rather expensive but it is worth it.
 
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My friend did this one.:)
this is the eye of a needle using a £1.50 50mm SLR lens from a boot sale reversed up against my Canon G6 when i had it.
 
that is impressive.
 
Yep,so anything is possible.
 
I have been playing around with my nifty fifty mounted onto my 105mm sigma macro with male to male filter I got for £4 off ebay. Got these:
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These are shoots off moss on the top of a stone wall with frozen water droplets
 
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