Harold Gough
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This should be possible, using supplementary lenses and a frame to position the camera in relation to the subject.
The question arises as to how useful the X-Pan focusing is at short working distances.
Does anyone have any experience to share?
The question arises as to how useful the X-Pan focusing is at short working distances.
Does anyone have any experience to share?
didjiman
Richard Man
The lens are not designed to focus closer than the closest distance. i.e. you just can't make the optics moves further back!
sepiareverb
genius and moron
I've never tried, but have wondered about using those + filters on an XPAN. I came to the conclusion that I'd just be missing both focus and composition too often.
payasam
a.k.a. Mukul Dube
The camera's range-finder and view-finder will both become irrelevant with a supplementary lens. Leitz made several attachments for near range work -- BOOWU, BELUN and so on -- and Canon had their Auto-Up, but a reflex camera is far more convenient if used with a macro lens or extension tubes or bellows.
Harold Gough
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This is not about convenience (I have just about every piece of kit I could ever want for macro with my OM system) it is about format.
jbrubaker
Established
X-pan macro
X-pan macro
Harold - I haven't tried with the X-pan, but I did with the Mamiya 7. Mamiya made a kit with screw-in close-up lens and a folding frame arraignment to show the area and focus plane. It did work, but not too convenient. Another thing I tried with good success is to mount the camera to a copy stand, open the back and the lens, and focus on a piece of ground glass. Then close the lens, load the film and shoot. This , of course, only works for indoor, static subjects. What is it you would like to photograph? Regards ---john.
X-pan macro
Harold - I haven't tried with the X-pan, but I did with the Mamiya 7. Mamiya made a kit with screw-in close-up lens and a folding frame arraignment to show the area and focus plane. It did work, but not too convenient. Another thing I tried with good success is to mount the camera to a copy stand, open the back and the lens, and focus on a piece of ground glass. Then close the lens, load the film and shoot. This , of course, only works for indoor, static subjects. What is it you would like to photograph? Regards ---john.
Harold Gough
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That is, essentially, what I did when I calibrated distances and field width, etc. with various supplementary lenses. The next stage is to see if the focusing mechanism can be used by fiendish trickery.
Harold Gough
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That's what supplementary lenses are always used to overcome.