Brendan Davey Photography

Ever wanted a cheap Marco lens? Well if you have a nice 50mm why not try some extension tubes? The results so far seem to be good. I’ve only had a change to try the tubes on an overcast day with some “average” flowers.

I’ve inserted the origional as shot by the 50mm at min focal length to give you an idea of the magnification. For this shot I used all 3 tubes stacked together to give 68mm of extension. The DOF is very small and I had to push the f1.4 lens up to over f7.1 to get anything decent.

A few manafacturers make the after market tubes, the ones I’ve been using are the Kenko ones. The Canon ones are insanely expensive, and considering there is no glass involved it hardly seems justifiable.

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It’s been quite a while since I’ve used a prime lens. I think the last one I used was on my Canon AE-1. Even on a 1.6x sensor body it’s still quite somthing special to be shooting at f1.4, and what better place to start than with flowers

80mm is quite constrictive and you have to be a fair distance from subjects to get everything in, but once you get used to it and the small depth of field it really starts to work it’s magic. I can’t wait to go full frame, and maybe a macro len.

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