tom
22-02-2005, 23:34
Hey guys
Picked up this cam a few days ago from a fella at my dad's work for £20 including the lens, as I needed a canon compatible film slr so i could use anything i have atm with it when I need to shoot film for my college course...
http://neo-fusion.co.uk/gallery/gallery/Camera_Stuff/Others/eos1000F.jpg
...i pretty much wrote the lens off as mediocre, until i saw a thread over at fred mirandas about this exact lens! basically, the front element just clips off, which leaves it looking like this (pic from the thread at FM):
http://www.bellyface.com/IMG_4732.jpg
and it then lets it focus bloomin close....these are some pics that I took with it:
Click to make this one bigger:
http://neo-fusion.co.uk/gallery/gallery/Camera_Stuff/Lens_Samples/35-80_Macro_Mod/5pmacro1.jpg (http://neo-fusion.co.uk/gallery/gallery/Camera_Stuff/Lens_Samples/35-80_Macro_Mod/5pfullres.jpg)
This is a another shot of the same 5p, uncropped but resized:
http://neo-fusion.co.uk/gallery/gallery/Camera_Stuff/Lens_Samples/35-80_Macro_Mod/5pmacro2.jpg
This is just a 100% crop of a picture of the word "be" in size 10 font on my 19" Trinitron @ 1280x1024
http://neo-fusion.co.uk/gallery/gallery/Camera_Stuff/Lens_Samples/35-80_Macro_Mod/screenrgb.jpg
EDIT Img tags broken by the admin on the last photo as it exceeds the forum guidlines.
Basically check out the auction site / local dealers and GET THIS LENS probably will cost you no more than a tenner
Picked up this cam a few days ago from a fella at my dad's work for £20 including the lens, as I needed a canon compatible film slr so i could use anything i have atm with it when I need to shoot film for my college course...
http://neo-fusion.co.uk/gallery/gallery/Camera_Stuff/Others/eos1000F.jpg
...i pretty much wrote the lens off as mediocre, until i saw a thread over at fred mirandas about this exact lens! basically, the front element just clips off, which leaves it looking like this (pic from the thread at FM):
http://www.bellyface.com/IMG_4732.jpg
and it then lets it focus bloomin close....these are some pics that I took with it:
Click to make this one bigger:
http://neo-fusion.co.uk/gallery/gallery/Camera_Stuff/Lens_Samples/35-80_Macro_Mod/5pmacro1.jpg (http://neo-fusion.co.uk/gallery/gallery/Camera_Stuff/Lens_Samples/35-80_Macro_Mod/5pfullres.jpg)
This is a another shot of the same 5p, uncropped but resized:
http://neo-fusion.co.uk/gallery/gallery/Camera_Stuff/Lens_Samples/35-80_Macro_Mod/5pmacro2.jpg
This is just a 100% crop of a picture of the word "be" in size 10 font on my 19" Trinitron @ 1280x1024
http://neo-fusion.co.uk/gallery/gallery/Camera_Stuff/Lens_Samples/35-80_Macro_Mod/screenrgb.jpg
EDIT Img tags broken by the admin on the last photo as it exceeds the forum guidlines.
Basically check out the auction site / local dealers and GET THIS LENS probably will cost you no more than a tenner