That's very cool, Darren. I've often thought I'd love to try macro with my 50-135. I figured that the SDM pass-through was not terribly useful as manual focus would most likely be required, but for $100 I'll keep an eye out for one of these things.
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tripped across a piece of equipment that I was not aware of this > morning and (just in case others didn't know about it either) thought > I would pass it along. > > It is a AF extension tube that works even with SDM lenses. It is > called the Kenko Uniplus Tube 25 and it was once made for Pentax, now > extremely hard to find. As good fortune would have it, I no more than > learned about it and looked and there was one listed on ePray (from > Japan) that had only 9 views when I snatched it up (Buy It Now). > > I'm passing this info along because it can turn your DA* 50-135mm or > even your DA 40 XS into a superb macro lens. If you don't believe me > check out this French Pentaxian's work. If you only have time to look > at ONE, check this out: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/15251430@N03/9168541564/ > > Here all ALL of his images tagged with Uniplus: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fs999/tags/uniplus/ > > The macro shots taken with the DA 40 XS can be seen here: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fs999/tags/pentaxda40mmf28xs/ > > Macros taken with the combo of the Uniplus Tube and the DA* 50-135mm are here: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fs999/tags/pentaxda50135mmf28sdm/ > > I don't own either of those two lenses. He tells me that the Uniplus > Tube works with anything over 20mm (with a 20mm the subject is just 1 > cm from the front of the lens). > > I'm curious to see how it works with reducing the minimum focusing > distance when used with the Bigma (and how much of the infinity end > you lose). > > If you really want to blow some time, FS999 has a lot of very engaging > sets on Flickr. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fs999/sets/ > > -- > "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - > Peter Galassi > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
