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Create Your Own Digital SLR Lenses

Posted 07/06/2007 at 1:06:06pm | by Zack Stern

BUILD A MACRO LENS

1. Have Some Chips, Grab a Drill

Your Pringles can should be empty, so start eating (or just put the chips in another container). Wash the empty can with soap and water to clean out all the grease. Let it dry thoroughly.

Use a Dremel Tool or standard drill to carve a hole in the can bottom, completing the cut with the tin snips. Make the hole about 1.5 inches in diameter so there’s still ample room to connect the body cap. You don’t have to hit the perfect center, but cut a good approximation.

It’s not your father’s shop class.

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2. Carve Out the Body Cap’s Center

Grab the body cap you purchased or scrounged up - and remember when you buy the cap that the connections vary slightly by camera brand. With your utility knife, gently carve the center out of the cap, stopping just before the locking mechanism that connects to the camera body. Roughly file or sand the inside of the cut - this will ensure that light scatters when hitting it. Clean out any stray bits of plastic.

The obligatory do-as-we-say-and-not-as-we-do recommendation: Cut away from you.

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Nikon cameras + old macro lenses
Submitted by SpaceCat85 (not verified) on Fri, 2007-07-06 14:49

Alright, maybe I'm missing the point, but why not (on the Nikon side, at least) buy an old Ai/Ai-s spec Micro-Nikkor (Nikon macro) lens + a diopter instead? You can get some of the Micro-Nikkor lenses used for around $50-100 (depending on the length) and have a high-quality macro lens that's easy to focus, works well in low light, & lets you adjust the depth of field beyond what most ordinary lenses can. I highly recommend looking at the below site to get an idea of what's out there:
Micro-Nikkor Lenses at 50, 55, 105, 200mm focal length
It definitely still beats paying 8-10x more for the autofocus equivalent.

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The point?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2007-07-08 22:13

Because you can! (pun intended)

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Sweet article
Submitted by Jason Whong (not verified) on Thu, 2007-07-12 18:04

I bow to your excellence, Zack. You are da man!

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Hot damn
Submitted by SwabyM (not verified) on Mon, 2007-07-23 12:20

I believe this lens comes in 3 series:
1) O Series (original Series)
2) B Series (barbeque Series)
3) and the elite SCO Series (sour cream and onions series)

"ONCE YOU LOCK (YOUR FOCUS), YOU JUST CAN'T STOP (TAKING PHOTOS)"

Ebay will have a flood of Canon and Nikon macro lenses coming in now.
I'm ordering mines tonight...

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