Nikon Extension rings...

[ecniv]

...Would you go for cheap (and poss nasty) from ebay to try it out, or try for AF extension rings at a higher price...?

Has anyone got some who could take a macro of a stamp or something then put the extension ring on and retake?

If you had to have one size extension which would be better? larger (10mm upwards?)

 

[cowasaki]

If you want to try a cheap set of rings then make a donation of £6 to TP and I will lob a set in the post to you !

 

[cowasaki]

The mods have confirmed the donation. I am in bed at the moment with some bug but I will have to crawl out of bed tomorrow no matter what or we will run out of food. I will post it then for you and hopefully you should get it on Saturday.

 

[ecniv]

Thanks. Don't worry about it if you are ill. Can wait a bit longer. Just got a 50mm f1.4 for the other half to play with. Very nice so far

 

[cowasaki]

Thanks. Don't worry about it if you are ill. Can wait a bit longer. Just got a 50mm f1.4 for the other half to play with. Very nice so far

I have vouchers for £75 off an SB900 or AFS 70-300 and £50 off the AFS 50f1.4 I am just deciding which one to get I really fancy the f1.4 but I have the 1.8 already and I have an SB600+800 so think I might have to go for the 70-300. Really want the f1.4 though.

 

[ecniv]

I will post a few pics soon - some for flickr too

Do you know how to set the bracketing on a D300?
I reassigned the button for bracketing to the ae-l/af-l. But it doesn't seem to flag the camera like the manual says - just curious really as I haven't been able to get it going since the beginning.

 

[Wail]

Press the button (the one assigned to bracketing) and then rotate the front dial to activate it. The rear dial is to set the steps for bracketing! I think that's it.

 

[ecniv]

50mm Lens f1.4D...
200 mm old lens

Shot one of the instructions f1.4 no flash and with flash f8

Oh tried the bracketing - thank you worked

 

[ecniv]

Just to let you know that the posty has the tubes. But hopefully I can pick em up tomorrow

 

[ecniv]

Got em

gonna try n post pics later

 

[ecniv]

Ok had a play...

By no means easy, may be the 200mm is slightly soft, but still sharper than the 18-200 vr... Weird

Anyway added the extensions.. all of them.

Wasn't too bad... think I still need to tweak the settings a bit on the focus point on the 200mm (just flashes when close to focus)...

f8 with flash

and for a comparison the 105mm macro

and the set up:

These are the 105mm macro


These are the 200mm plus ext

 

[ecniv]

Limited to six pics... so here is the last - 200mm plus ext

f8 on lens - no flash

Thanks to cowasaki for the extensions. Brilliant for trialling...
Now I just have to justify the 200 mm by getting focus right and taking some good pics