68degrees
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Its a ring that allows you to mount a Nikon lens backwards on a body, or bellows or extension ring. Have you ever used one? What are your experiences?
Nikon BR-2 reversing adapter ring - whats your opinion?
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benji77
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Superb little device that expands your lens usage. It will work with all the 52mm threaded lens, but they have to have an aperture ring, else you will be literally working blind.
You will need a macro sliding plate though, as it is impossible to be operated hand-held. Shoots subjects that you can only get close to. And I mean close (1-5cm).
You will need a macro sliding plate though, as it is impossible to be operated hand-held. Shoots subjects that you can only get close to. And I mean close (1-5cm).
biomed
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I used to use the reversing ring with my Nikkor 24/2.8 and bellows for larger than life size close up work. If you use the BR-2 without bellows, I would recommend mounting the camera on a focusing rail.
Dwig
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I've used one many times, usually with a 50mm f/2 or 20mm f/3.5, and found it can be used handheld if you are using flash.
I've also used an odd flexible clamp device to hold subjects in the wild. This has a small plate with screw to attach to the body's tripod socket on one end and a small clip/clamp ("roach clip" type) on the other. The two are connected by a stiff piece of bendable wire (copper ~8-12 gauge). I would clip a flower stem in the clamp and bend the wire to place the flower part at the proper focus point.
Reversing any prime between 20 and 50 works well. Several of the zooms (43-86, 35-105, ...) will also produce usable results when reversed directly on the body without any other extension.
I've also used an odd flexible clamp device to hold subjects in the wild. This has a small plate with screw to attach to the body's tripod socket on one end and a small clip/clamp ("roach clip" type) on the other. The two are connected by a stiff piece of bendable wire (copper ~8-12 gauge). I would clip a flower stem in the clamp and bend the wire to place the flower part at the proper focus point.
Reversing any prime between 20 and 50 works well. Several of the zooms (43-86, 35-105, ...) will also produce usable results when reversed directly on the body without any other extension.
Stdon
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Used one quite a bit with a 50mm f1:1.2 Ai. Yes you do need a focusing rail as the DOF is so narrow that razor doesn't describe it. A flash won't help hand held. If your point of focus is out of focus because of a slight wiggle a flash won't bring it back into focus.
Camera and subject need to be rock steady. No wind, mirror uplock and remote release. I also put baffling material around the camera and lens to also soak up any vibration.
And I'm not a dedicated macro shooter.
Camera and subject need to be rock steady. No wind, mirror uplock and remote release. I also put baffling material around the camera and lens to also soak up any vibration.
And I'm not a dedicated macro shooter.
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I've not had issues hand holding macro shots when I use a flash. True, I do miss the focus occasionally but most of the time not.
The attached image (higher res version) wasn't done with a BR-2 on a film body, like many of my older images. It's just one I could quickly find to post. It was shot with an Olympus OM 38mm f/3.5 Macro (the real thing, a short mount lens in British standard microscope thread mount) adapted to LTM and used with some short LTM extension tubes (E Leitz NY tubes) and an LTM>m43 adapter. The flash was the built-in flash on my Panny G-1 with a diffuser mounted on the frontmost extension tube. The snail is very small, only about 10-15mm long.
The attached image (higher res version) wasn't done with a BR-2 on a film body, like many of my older images. It's just one I could quickly find to post. It was shot with an Olympus OM 38mm f/3.5 Macro (the real thing, a short mount lens in British standard microscope thread mount) adapted to LTM and used with some short LTM extension tubes (E Leitz NY tubes) and an LTM>m43 adapter. The flash was the built-in flash on my Panny G-1 with a diffuser mounted on the frontmost extension tube. The snail is very small, only about 10-15mm long.
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68degrees
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Nice thanks.
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