Little creepy crawlers in the garden 2

Turns out summer time is really bad for anything remotely connected to sky watching. So here's some more macro's I did with a reversed lens. This time I used the Pentax-M 50mm f1.7.

It's pretty fly...

Drone Fly
(Pentax K-5, reversed Pentax-M 50mm f1.7 + extension tubes,
1/250s, 50mm, ISO 800)

Drone Fly
(Pentax K-5, reversed Pentax-M 50mm f1.7 + extension tubes,
1/500s, 50mm, ISO 800)

Yellow Dungfly
(Pentax K-5, reversed Pentax-M 50mm f1.7 + extension tubes,
1/800s, 50mm, ISO 1600)

Damselfly
(Pentax K-5, reversed Pentax-M 50mm f1.7 + extension tubes,
1/250s, 50mm, ISO 800)

Repurposing an old lens: the reverse macro lens

Yesterday I got my lens reversal ring! It's basically a K-mount ring with 49mm male filter thread on it. This allows one to mount a lens onto a camera backwards and this works great for macro photography! There's a little background reading on Wikipedia.

I'm using the following configuration: my old Olympus 50mm F1.8 in reverse, macro extension tubes and a 2x teleconverter. I admit, it's an odd looking tower.

My "macro lens"

Little creepy crawlers in the garden

While I am still waiting for clear dark skies, I fancied playing some more with macro tubes. No flowers this time, but little bugs!

Young grasshopper
(Pentax K-5, Pentax-M 50mm f1.7 + extension tubes,
1/400s, 50mm, ISO 800)

Fly on the Wall
(Pentax K-5, Pentax-M 50mm f1.7 + extension tubes, 1/800s, 50mm, ISO 1600)

Come in to my lair...
(Pentax K-5, Pentax-M 50mm f1.7 + extension tubes, 1/60s, 50mm, ISO 400)