2x Converter for Macro Shots

[bobbl46]

Hi Don

Ah! Ha! As I suspected! I've tried this ... excellent for really high mags, > 2:1. Working distances can get a tad short!

Many thanks, Bob

 

[jeter]

I visited the online store "KenkoMall" as suggested in a post above and discovered that the 2x macro converter was discontinued but still for sale there. I decided to buy one right away for use with a Zeiss 50/1.4. Uploaded is a test photo I took recently. The JPEG cannot show the quality because, unfortunately, all I can show you is a cheap flatbed scan of a 5 x 7 print. The original is quite nice, IMHO. The shot was handheld (f2.8 [= 5.6] at ~ 1/90), Kodak PNC 400 film, and composed with no pretense of any artistic notion! The scanner induced a narrower contrast range, among other flaws. Oh well. Best wishes.

 

[jsmisc]

Leon,
I think that is very good and also further vindication of the macro converter idea.
John

 

[bobbl46]

Hi Leon

Looks like it's just what you needed! How do you find using the converter? Are you glad I recommended it? If you are, pass on the word about this often forgotten piece of kit. Shame they are discontinued, it will mean people having to hunt around for used ones!

I've just got some slides back of Fallow Deer where I used the 2x Macro as a conventional 2x, attached to a 300mm f2.8 Tamron. I'll post the results shortly. I was pleased to see it did not appear to degrade the images, but I've only seen them in a hand viewer. I'll give them a more critical look tonight, projected to 6ft x 4ft.

Cheers, Bob.

 

[paulcontax]

Hi all you Contaxians, I use the mentioned converter myself and I'm quite satisifed with it's res= ults ! I tried several converter (Sigma 1,4x, Sigma 2x, Tamron 2x, Vivitar 2x, ..= .) but this ones seems the best. This is supported by a test result in an older german photo journal where = this was the best. Afterwards they never tested it again but the original = manufacturer converters. Comparing the test charts I couldn't find the OEM's converters better (exc= ept the Zeiss one but that seems to me much too expensive...). I use this converter with the 50mm Planar and the 135mm Sonnar and even wi= th a Tokina 2.8/80-200 it was really good. It's was not that good with the= cheaper zoom-lenses (3.5-5.6). That it also supported by a test from the = german fotomagazin where they stated that not every lens is good with a co= nverter. In general you could say that lenses with wide open appertures do it quite= well but those less opened (zoom as mentioned above and they took a Sigma= 5.6/400 which didn't do it well with the converter) are not good partners= with converters.

Happy shootings

Paul

 

[bobbl46]

I make no claim of excellent photography with these shots but here are 2 ex&les of use of the 2x Macro converter. Fallow deer and Small Red damselfly both at full frame reduced to 8% to fit in with the 300 x 300 limit. Also 300 x 300 extract of each one from the original image as scanned by my Nikon Coolscan LS20 at 2700dpi. No sharpening or colour alterations made.

Details: Fallow Deer, Agfa 100, AX body, Tamron 300mm f2.8 LD IF + Teleplus 2x Macro converter. Lens on monopod, deer walking, lens set to f2.8, shutter speed approx 1/350th. Subjects were approx 200 metres away.

Details: Small Red damselfly, Agfa 100, AX body, Zeiss Planar 50mm f1.4 MM + teleplus 2x Macro converter, Vivitar 3500 TTL flash. Camera on monopod, Zeiss set to f8, flash on TTL, slight wind movement of subject at approx 9" from front of lens.

Cheers, Bob.

 

[ou1954]

>Posted by Bob Letsche on Wednesday, September 03, 2003 - 9:25 pm: > >I make no claim of excellent photography with these shots but here are >2 ex&les of use of the 2x Macro converter. Fallow deer and Small Red >damselfly both at full frame reduced to 8% to fit in with the 300 x >300 limit. Also 300 x 300 extract of each one from the original image >as scanned by my Nikon Coolscan LS20 at 2700dpi. No sharpening or >colour alterations made. > >[Fallow_8pc.jpg] > >[Fallow_100pc_extract.jpg]

I think attachments don't come over on this mail system.

DAW

 

[dirk]

"...I think attachments don't come over on this mail system..."

Don,

just click on the link at the buttom of the e-mail message and you get directly to the thread with the photos visible in the forum online.

Great results with the converter by the way...

 

[bobbl46]

Thanks Dirk .... for putting Don on course to view the images and for your compliment!

Cheers, Bob.

 

[paolosavio]

Alan,
Your same reason drove me buying
the yashica 55 macro I own...

Bob, I never thought about using 2x macro converter with the 50 Planar... My girlfriend (now my wife) bought me one as a Christmas present some time ago, when I only had zoom lenses, and results weren't so "exciting", so I will try again, thank you very much...

And about newborn hands, I would like to share this photo with you...

Thanks
Paolo