I've been reading this thread with interest.
Wife Jacky (wisher on here) and I have been out in the garden taking advantage of the good weather....I'm sure they'll be one or two posted up here soon
I not so long ago dug out some old cheap 4 element teleconvertors, took the glass out of them and have used these as extension tubes.
As I have loads of kit from the now defunct Contax system, we've got a Contax lens to Canon adapter so Jacky can use some of the lenses. she's mainly been using an old Yashica 50mm on a reversal ring (which I have to admit is tricky), whilst I've been experiementing with 180mm,135mm,90mm tamron lenses and the 50mm f1.4 pictured here attatched to those two modified teleconvertors. (on my usual RTS +W6 drive combination)
Incidentally, the added Ali' tripod mount bracket was dug out from a box of bits a while back...I'd made it back in school metalwork lessons when everyone else was making candle stick holders and ashtrays! (the teacher was well impressed....but didn't realise I was doing it to get out of welding... which I always hated! LOL)
I haven't done much macro for years, other than a couple I posted a while back here. It's an interesting side of photography I think we could both be geting use to....it's just the dreaded DOF we all need tho!
Point is...if anyone wants to get into macro on the cheap, there's LOADS of Contax mount stuff going for pennies on the secondhand market (everyone looks to be getting rid)...some of the lenses are top class, and there's plenty of mount adapters about too
