Macro photography with a plain kit lens

Technology has advanced quite far. As much as I like my legacy manual lenses, but the minimum focus distance is at least 25 cm. Back in those days, you had to buy a macro lens, an intermediate ring or a close up lens.

The kit lens of the Nex is capable of focussing very close, so with focal length set to 55 mm and aperture closed down to 8, you can get real close. The two sides of a coin :-) shown above have been cropped only in a minor way.

In forgers paradise

Having immersed myself into the internals of a stuck-aperture Vivitar lens, I spontaneously glued a lens element from a broken beamer onto a surplus filter ring and mounted it onto my FD lenses.

It makes those lenses so short-sighted that I used the 24 mm to get enough motive area into the picture. Moving backwards is not an option because the focus ring of the lens from 0.3 to infinity is now equal to maybe 5 mm focus range!

So it allows macro photography but has its restrictions. Since it hasn't cost anything, that is alright :-)

The level of detail is quite surprising for me, but then I am usually not a close-up photographer.

Note: Those pictures are NOT cropped.