Reverse Lens mounts

bartoszwozniak · 3 Oct 2009

At the moment my dad owns an 18-200mm IS EF-s lens, and we were wondering whether these Reverse Lens mounts were any good. What are your opinions and experiences with these? Could you give me any links to where they sell these, because I cant find any at the moment.

malla1962 · 3 Oct 2009

bartoszwozniak said:
At the moment my dad owns an 18-200mm IS EF-s lens, and we were wondering whether these Reverse Lens mounts were any good. What are your opinions and experiences with these? Could you give me any links to where they sell these, because I cant find any at the moment.

look on ebay they are there but remember when you reverse that lens you will be shooting wide open.

Peter10d · 3 Oct 2009

Try Premier Ink as I beleive they still sell them
http://www.premier-ink.co.uk/photographic/reversing-rings/-c-60_447.html
When I enquired about them before, one of the assistants was honest enough to say that in his opinion they are not very good. I therefore never got one so still unsure.

Uneducated_Rick · 3 Oct 2009

malla1962 said:
look on ebay they are there but remember when you reverse that lens you will be shooting wide open.

You can step a lens down using the same method that some people have to use when using entension tubes.

Mount the lens as normal
Step the lens down to the aperture you want
Press and hold the DoF preview button
Remove the lens whilst still holding the DoF preview button

tada - lens stays stepped down, unfortunately you will have repeat this every time you want to change the aperture

dinorock · 3 Oct 2009

are you sure arn,t they spring loaded and close down to minimum aperture as soon as you remove the lens or is it different on canon len,s :shrug:

Philx1979 · 3 Oct 2009

I bought a reverse lens mount off eBay for £9 and tried it out with a 35mm prime lens and got very good results with it after 30mins of getting used to it, all depends really what results you want. Go to this link to see my result of a 5p coin. http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=169321

malla1962 · 4 Oct 2009

dinorock said:
are you sure arn,t they spring loaded and close down to minimum aperture as soon as you remove the lens or is it different on canon len,s :shrug:

Thats what I was thinking:shrug:I would just buy a old manual lens then you dont have the problem.

Uneducated_Rick · 4 Oct 2009

There are many threads containing this advise for when people are trying out with non-Canon extension tubes/teleconverters.

Why buy another lens when you've already got a perfectly good lens?