I recently purchased a lens coupler ring to create macro photos on the cheap. The coupler cost about $8 on B&H, and overall I really think it’s worth the small investment.

These are some raw, unedited test shots I made using a 75-300mm lens coupled with a reverse 50mm to form a telephoto macro lens.

You can use any lenses to do this with as long as you can find a coupler to go with both filter sizes. The coupler screws onto the end of your glass just like a filter, and faces the two lenses head to head. You’ll be shooting out of the rear of your 50mm lens and attach the other lens to your camera body like normal.

A friend tells me you can also just hold up a 50mm lens reversed and achieve a semi-macro effect, so I’ll be trying that out next.

I’m interested to see if anyone else has tried this technique and what their experience/results were like. Please share if you’re up for it!

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