Take a look at this string in another forum:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/731810
Harold
A DIY Reversed Lens Linkage
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A DIY Reversed Lens Linkage
My images are a medium for sharing some of my experiences: they are not me.
It's on my ToDo list to make something like this. I have an old 4/3rds body to extract the electrical contacts from and an Olympus 14-40mm kit lens (that isn't worth putting on the camera) to salvage the lens mount from. I just haven't figured out how to connect everything to the bellows setup.
There are quite a few dead camera bodies and lens available for the asking or for shipping costs, so experimenting shouldn't cost too much.
There are quite a few dead camera bodies and lens available for the asking or for shipping costs, so experimenting shouldn't cost too much.
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Are you doing this on a Quanon? If so, how do you control aperture on the reversed lens?Cyclops wrote:Much easier to get a coupling ring and reverse attach an old manual lens onto a longer lens.
If you're leaving the reversed lens wide open and controlling aperture on the "longer lens" mounted on the camera, you're taking a big hit on performance...