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Published: 2012-04-06 10:43:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 6951; Favourites: 155; Downloads: 177
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Here is the tutorial I promised a few days ago.I hope you will enjoy making one and using it.
This is my first tutorial so pardon me for
not being as good as other tutorial makers.
Photos made with this lens :
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Comments: 51
I had everything at home. So nothing
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This is genius, but how does one go about fastening the make-shift lens to the hood? mine's relatively small, so there isn't much room to work with. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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You, good lady, have my personal Seal of approval
for outstanding generosity of vision - pun intended.
seriously tho, thanks, I'm going to save myself a fortune with this.
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Ahh! I'm just...AH! Do you know how long I have wanted a macro lends???(never got one, used was a chunk of $900, yikes!) You meant to tell me I could just make one? This is just! AH! Thank you!!! You have made my day, no, my week!!!! (ok, now I'm done sounding like a barbie teen on a freak out)
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Thanks for sharing the tutorial. Seeing the work you've done with it makes me want to go out and try it, haha.
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This is great. I will try it myself. Thanks a lot!
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Thanks for sharing this. I need to try it myself.
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Very interesting Tutorial 
I have just 2 questions:
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Wow! That is what I called real DIY! You must be really patient with this macro technique...
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Yaaaay free stuff!
I'm defintly going to try it!
Also only one question:
You got 4 example pictures, the first from the left, in the second row... I just fell in love with that one, but dA keeps telling me that the page doesn't exist...
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You can't see that photo because it was deleted.
I hope you will have fun making this
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Oh, no
Why would you delete such a beauty? or may be you moved it somewhere...
I would love to have it as a wallpaper on one of my devices(as long as you approve such use of your art ^^ )
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Well, you can buy them if you want
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Yaaaarrr!!
A pirate wouldn't pay for something he can get for free.
But I'm a nice pirate, I nicely ask before I take and don't take if got denied
Sorry
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haha! i used to do he same when i had a Digital camera & wanted to have a macro lens
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I love ingenuity. 
Great idea that's one way that totally slipped by me.
I use lenses from old slide projectors and T.V. News cameras myself,
I just place the end of the tube over the end of my camera and voila!!!
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what are diopter lenses?
o.O can i use the lense from a magnifying glass?xD
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Hi there, your stock has been featured here: [link] Hope you don't mind
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Wow, that's interesting. I wish I found this before I went and bought a macro lense...
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Another way I've seen it done even more effectively is taking an old lens and flipping it around. I can't remember how he attached it to the camera, and you have to be 100 times more careful of scratches and dust, but the macro effect was unbelievable. You could hold the camera directly up to objects, and have such a short depth of field that you could have less than half the height of a single letter in focus ... oh, and enough zoom that you could fit in as few as two letters together into an entire image.
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just tried it out...working well so far
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Glad to hear that
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nice solution) i know another one, with more magnification ratio. can show you if you want
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ok, stay tuned) i need some preparing)
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cool tuto, never heard about that way of arranging things
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Sorry, but I don't understand your language.
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"i love to work macro,
i use a lot of lenses"
or sth like that
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I'm sorry. forgot to translate into English
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the background is a little too bright and I can't read all the words
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