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I have had NO luck with macros of my flies...until now. A friend of mine showed me how to take my body cap, cut out a hole in the center, glue a conversion ring (that would screw into my kit lens) on to the cap and use it for macro. By reversing the kit lens I can now get such great macros of my flies. Understand that these all have focus (due to being hand held) and lighting problems , but those will be easy to remedy. The BAD thing about this is I'll be able to see how bad my flies are tied...the GOOD thing about this is I'll be able to see how bad my flies are!! :hyst:

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Sounds all too complicated ...why not buy a new camera with a nice macro setting ?. The Pentax Optios have a 'Text' setting that works well for macro shots

 

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Yes, as Paul has mentioned, you are going to have some serious issues with DOF. You do not really have much motion blur in the shots, that you posted, to be honest, an extremely small area of the fly fell inside of the focus zone and the rest is outside and out of focus. The majority of your fly patterns are out of focus due to a DOF that is now measured in mm. At these values, your better option would be rails, focus stacking and perhaps bellows.

 

The best route, IMHO, would be to find an older inexpensive non-CPU macro lens and use it. For macro photography, it really is best to get used to adjusting manually anyway.

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