I'm sure most here know this, but if you take a lens, and hold it backwards to the lens mount of the camera body, you get a macro lens. Of course, there's no aperture control or autofocus, but you can still get some extreme magnification.
It's fun, but it's hard to hold the lens to the camera while trying to get a good composition and focus manually. (to focus, you have to move the whole camera and lens closer/further to the subject)
I thought it would be way more fun if the lens were attached. So I took the body cap, and drilled/dremeled the center of the cap out:
Then, I superglued the kit lens's super narrow focusing ring to the face of the body cap. That left me with:
After letting the glue cure, I put it onto my 5D.
Voila, macro on the mega-cheap. I wouldn't advise doing this to a nice lens obviously, and this certianly won't replace a proper macro lens, but for those with kit lenses just sitting on a shelf or in a bag, it's a fun way to get some use out of it.
Here's a shot of something that was sitting on my desk, the lens cap to my 85 1.2:
It's fun, but it's hard to hold the lens to the camera while trying to get a good composition and focus manually. (to focus, you have to move the whole camera and lens closer/further to the subject)
I thought it would be way more fun if the lens were attached. So I took the body cap, and drilled/dremeled the center of the cap out:
Then, I superglued the kit lens's super narrow focusing ring to the face of the body cap. That left me with:
After letting the glue cure, I put it onto my 5D.
Voila, macro on the mega-cheap. I wouldn't advise doing this to a nice lens obviously, and this certianly won't replace a proper macro lens, but for those with kit lenses just sitting on a shelf or in a bag, it's a fun way to get some use out of it.
Here's a shot of something that was sitting on my desk, the lens cap to my 85 1.2:
It really reminds me of all the tinkering people do with their macs!