Comments on: Pringles can macro photography

By: Marquita Mcquire

Marquita Mcquire — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:01:50 +0000

: P … Just Telling: P: D

By: cmholm

cmholm — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:18:51 +0000

For those of you who – like me – still have their manual focus SLR chassis, stuff like lens reversing rings, macro lenses, and macro bellows have gotten pretty reasonable on eBay as of late.

Now, if only a few rokkor/canon/nikkor fisheyes would do the same…

By: dylski

dylski — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:18:47 +0000

@Alcoholic

I did something like that on for my Olympus 2020Z camera. Used an old cheap 58mm lens in reverse in front of the camera to get some good results.

Rudimentary project instructions and results available at http://www.2ne1.com/super_macro.html

By: entropia

entropia — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:41:02 +0000

The camera manufacturer is Canon, not Cannon…

By: Alcoholic

Alcoholic — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:28:13 +0000

He mentions activating DOF preview on the camera and then removing the lens. It would be better and easier to just get an older manual focus lens that has an aperture ring built in for $5 at a store that sells used camera equipment.

This trick is just a variation on using the pre-made macro extension rings which are available for most lens mounts. Another fun trick is to take two lenses, say 50mm lenses, and tape or use a reversing ring to put one backwards in front of the one attached to the camera. You can get nearly microscopic levels of magnification with the right lenses.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:59:23 +0000

Neat hack, but without upping the sub-mm dof, this would only really be useful for photographing 2d surfaces and the like.

By: Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:42:04 +0000

@ alex
the source is cited in the first sentence. It was a submission to the tip line.

By: gilbert

gilbert — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:31:05 +0000

what brand of “potatoe crisps” is it in the link, it don’t look like a typical pringles can.

By: Alex ~

Alex ~ — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:20:25 +0000

(PS, don’t take that the wrong way, it’s a playful jab)

By: Alex ~

Alex ~ — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:19:50 +0000

So glad i read this yesterday on Hackzine, come on Caleb, cite the source :p

By: Eric M

Eric M — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:52:10 +0000

I’ve actually created a slightly adapted version of this, and an Instructable here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/SYZNYW3FLROKQCZ/