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#241
So what's a reverse lens adapter, then?

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I find jumping spiders to be the most tolerable to look at haha. It kept jumping on my lens while I was taking photos of it. It was only maybe 5mm long.

And that first spider was probably 1mm big. And it was on one line of webbing stretched across a slide. Wind kept blowing and made it F'ing difficult to focus. Got one usable photo out of like 30 haha.
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#242
It is merely an adapter that attaches to the camera that allows you to use the lens backwards, which then allows you to focus really close.

It was $10, and in my opinion, very worth the money. It's not like you need the adapter, you can just hold the lens on backwards with your hand. But the adapter frees up your hand so you can hold a flash with it, or hold the camera extra steady.

Oh yeah, and you can use it with pretty much any lens. you just have to order an adapter with the filter size of the lens you want to use. I bought a 58mm one for the Canon EFS 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 II (Kit lens)
 
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If you're nice bright sunlight, the exposure shouldn't change much if at all.

What I do though, is I stop down the lens to f16 and I use a flash handheld above the camera. For the most part it seems with that, 1/160 is the general shutter speed I use (also that's as fast as I can go because that's the synch speed with the flash using the wireless trigger).

Though I will say that something like this is best left for digital. You have a pretty small area of focus, and you can only focus by moving in closer or further away. And when you're trying to take pictures of bugs, obviously they aren't going to sit still. So it can be quite a crapshoot and it's great to be able to take all the photos necessary to get the shot.

I suppose you could always find dead bugs or freeze them though.

Oh and I am not sure exactly when camera shake isn't an issue. I've noticed lots of blurry photos due to camera shake, even at 1/160. I'm reversing a lens at 18mm though, so it gets pretty darn close.
 
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AsoBit said:
If anyone here has a few minutes to spare, and a facebook page, I would appreciate it if you went here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/The-Photo-Center/173312711182
Liked the page

Then went to my photo: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6205254&id=173312711182
And like it.

Photo with the most "likes" wins a $50 gift card to the store, and their photo is put into a local gallery.

Also, seems like the page might only show up to people in the U.S. :(
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I'm in Canada and the first link doesnt work. The second link also doesnt work because of your privacy settings =L
 
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