Macro photography using a can of Pringles - the close-up story

[Bob Crabtree]

Compact cameras are great but you can't beat a removable-lens SLR for versatility.

Bung on a long, long lens for wonderful wildlife shots; substitute an ultra-wide for amazing architectural interiors; or fit a can of Pringles crisps for magnificent high-magnification macro close-ups of miniscule objects or creatures.

No, really, that's not a joke. There's a walk-through of how to use a can of Pringles for macro work - more accurately, a Pringles' can - over at Photocritic.org, the self-styled 'Home of budget DIY photography projects'.

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And, of course, please let us know your thoughts - and tell us about some of your own DIY specials.

[Flibb]

Inetersting article, am just about to start building a macro lens myself. The design I found for my Nikon D70 uses the bayonet and chip of a 50mm F1.8 AF D (or similar), you then attach an adapter plate using epoxy (apparently cokin filters rings work) this then allows a simple bellows to be attached you can put an enlarger lens on the other end or a reversed lens or a prime, anything really. It can also be used to attach older nikon lenses, M42 stuff or to make a teleconvertor (all maintaining metering). The ideal donour lens would have been dropped and have broken glass, just need to find a cheap donour now.

[hoodmeister]

Sounds interesting

Makes me wonder why I just spent £150 on a "cheap" Macro lens!

[Flibb]

Have a look here


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[PMM]

He's certainly done good

deffo a far greater depth of field there

I have a Raynox Macro lense + old front lens piece cut off a dead casio digicam
plus another off a std film compact camera put together.

This is about as good as it gets close up....

Mypen macro