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Today I did a little experiment. Based on my reading on the word wide web thanks to Google for guiding me where to look things up.

This is the normal view. Taken with Nikkor 18-55 Kits lens at 55mm. This shows how small the spider is. It is small.

This is when you reverse mount your 50mm prime lens. Nikkor 50mm 1.8D mount on reverse ring mount. This is actually a cheap but versatile lens. You can do potrait, now you can do macro too. Reverse ring mount should cost you between RM10 ~ RM30 depend on which shop.

This when things get interesting. Based on my reading, you can get better magnification when you put other lens in front of the lens. Particularly a prime lens with aperture wide open. So I put 50mm 1.8D at f/1.8 and put on reverse at the front of Nikkor 18-55 kit lens at 55mm. This is what I get. Better magnification. But you get the black round around the image because of 50mm lens barrel. You can easily crop it off.

Now I got Nikkor 70-300 VR lens too. This I try out at 100mm and 50mm 1.8d in front. Again, you get better magnification, shallow DOF and black round which you crop it off too.

This is the most interesting one. Nikkor 70-300 VR at 200mm with 50mm 1.8D in front. No Black round, very shallow DOF, very high magnification.

So now I need to a bit more research on how to attach the lens in front, maybe use rubber band, maybe use some sort of mount, I don’t know.  I also need to experiment more on what aperture suitable at 200mm since the one as picture is too shallow and not to say very hard to get things in focus.

Until then, happy photography