Vintage Vivitar 135mm prime backed with all 4 Asanuma macro tubes. It’s M42 mount week!
These are all full-frame, not cropped. Boy howdy, you can get in close, yet not so close that context is lost.
Nice for inventorying those type slug markings!
You *can* be abstract in this field of view.
can get pretty good depth of field at f22.
Not so much at f2.8 – the focus just explodes beyond a thin slit of sanity.
It puts my mobile phone camera to shame! :)
Honorable Reverend Munk, you sorely tempting me to haul out my collection of 35mm gear. And 2-1/4 gear. And 4×5 gear. It’s all been too long resting.
dooo eeet! I love being an adult living in this particular time – i can play with such fun toys that are just obsolete enough to be sitting around on thrift store shelves for pennies :D
If you have the toys – PLAY!
My macro solution is similar. I fix a couple of (very inexpensive) Nikon Ai extension tubes from my old Nikon FM2 set-up to my old 50mm prime and click the lot onto the front of my Nikon D5000. Uncoupled, but an educated guess on exposure with some fine tuning and a rock-steady tripod can give excellent results. It opens up a whole new world!
yep, these tubes were a sort of consolation prize I got when i found a thrift store with a *whole shelf* of lenses. Sadly they were all Nikon autofocus and Canon FD lenses, and the only M42 stuff were the tubes and a 2x Teledaptor. Still not bad for $6. :D
Them tubes do awesome work. And what a beautiful Olivetti label. ( :