[Nass]

Please add useful macro sites that you know of! Extra brownie points if they're Pentax-specific.
As people add sites I'll keep adding them here and delete the posts to try and keep things organised.
Expect more to come...!

• Pentax-specific
  
  
  • Extreme macro photography - Macro, lenses & stacking, by forum member Nass.
  • Pentax closeup accessories - Bojidar Dimitrov
  • Pentax macro photography - VanNatta camera history
  • Thomas Shahan - inspirational photos showing what you can do with a reversed 28 on a Pentax
  
  
  
• Non-Pentax
  
  
  • Basic Macro - it's not just about insects!
  • Beautiful Bugs - a little dated but useful on insect photography
  • Flower photography - flowers macro and closeups
  • John Kimber - blog with lots of general good stuff about macro
  • Kurt's Blog - lots of really good stuff about lighting, technique etc.
  • Macrostop - instruction videos on macro and stacking
  • Macro Primer by Brian Valentine - general technique, methods and equipment
  • Snowflake Macro - how to shoot those snowflakes

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Last edited by Nass; 05-21-2014 at 07:18 AM.

[slowhands95128]

I don't know where to post this so move it as appropriate, or just pick out the websites and add them above, whatever.

One topic that comes up over and over is using enlarger lenses for macro. Brilliant idea, but it takes various adapters, rings, caps, elbow grease and duct tape to do it. It can be fun to do, but it's also reinventing the wheel. There are off the shelf solutions.

A German company makes adapters for enlarger lenses (which tend to have non-standard threads, like 40.5x0.5mm on Nikkors). He makes them with 3 camera mount threads, either M39, M42, or T2, which lets you mount on just about any camera with an added camera specific adapter. It's the enlarger lens front thread that is tough to find, and here they are:

Reverse adapters for enlarging lenses

On the The MFlenses forum there is a high quality kit of adapters, rings and tubes developed for using all sorts of enlarger lenses on M43 and Sony mirrorless cameras, as well as Sony SLRs. So here it is:

The VNEX enlarger lens project V2.0