Extension tube with wide angle lens.

[EBmedia]

Hi everyone, last time i like wide angle macro work, and trying to get in to that world, just don't want to spend money to buy new wide angle macro lens for example (Laowa 15mm), but i have Nikon 16-35mm lens and thinking to adding extension tubes to get better magnification and close focus distance. So dose anyone has some experience with this set up, just interested will this work ?

 

[Jack]

Hi EBmedia , Unfortunately I have never tried Extension technique, as I own a macro lens. But if I’m not wrong, you probably could adapt an extension tube to your current lens. But this is only my thoughts. There are other professional on site who hopefully will be happy to give you a better advice and help.

 

[EBmedia]

Hi EBmedia , Unfortunately I have never tried Extension technique, as I own a macro lens. But if I’m not wrong, you probably could adapt an extension tube to your current lens. But this is only my thoughts. There are other professional on site who hopefully will be happy to give you a better advice and help.

I also have 105 macro, and never used extension tubes, but really like some macro work when included some surroundings in the shot, and this is not achievable with long focal lengths, just trying figure out is there way to use my wide angle lens, and one idea was extension tubes. Hope some one can answer ?

 

[Jack]

I also have 105 macro, and never used extension tubes, but really like some macro work when included some surroundings in the shot, and this is not achievable with long focal lengths, just trying figure out is there way to use my wide angle lens, and one idea was extension tubes. Hope some one can answer ?

If I’m not wrong @Bill Edwards , Helix_2648 or rcorteschile could give you a better answer here. That’s far as I know EBmedia

 

[Helix_2648]

Good question. Since I've only used my 60mm macro so far I cannot say anything about it. But it's interesting for me as well! I'll will investigate this...

 

[Deleted member 250]

Hi everyone, last time i like wide angle macro work, and trying to get in to that world, just don't want to spend money to buy new wide angle macro lens for example (Laowa 15mm), but i have Nikon 16-35mm lens and thinking to adding extension tubes to get better magnification and close focus distance. So dose anyone has some experience with this set up, just interested will this work ?

I have just tried my 18-70 (set to 35mm) with tubes and could not get it to focus.
I used a cheap s/h 50mm1.8 lens with tubes for a few years with success if that helps.

 

[EBmedia]

I have just tried my 18-70 (set to 35mm) with tubes and could not get it to focus.
I used a cheap s/h 50mm1.8 lens with tubes for a few years with success if that helps.

Well 50mm not wide enough, I'd prefer 16mm, did you manually focus or auto?

 

[Deleted member 250]

Well 50mm not wide enough, I'd prefer 16mm, did you manually focus or auto?

Tried both. I1ll try the 18-70 kit lens later and let you know.

 

[Helix_2648]

I've read some articles but I'm still not sure if this can work.

Your above mentioned lens 16-35mm from Nikon (AF-S NIKKOR 16-35 mm 1:4G ED VR ) has a magnification power of 1:4. This means that a bee of 2cm would have a size of 5mm on the sensor at the minimum focus of 29cm.

To reduce the minimum focus you can use such extension tubes which allows you to come closer to the subject and get a higher magnification. But to get 1:1 magnification (2cm bee = 2cm on your sensor) you would really need a long extension tube and have to come so close to the subject, that I'm not sure if you can handle this anymore. I've also read an article that an extension tube length above the focal length won't work. But I'm not sure about that.

So at the end I don't think, that you can really use your 35mm lens as a real macro lens. And even if it would work you would reduce the DOF in such a wa, that the background becomes much more blurry than before which means that you'll lost your desired effect.

But again... I'm not really sure if everything is correct what I've written and I've understood everything correctly.


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Here an additional picture which shows the physical effect of an extension tube.

Regards,
Jörg

 

[Deleted member 250]

Tried both. I1ll try the 18-70 kit lens later and let you know.

Not sure of the reason why but would not focus at the 18mm end with any combination of tubes.
So I`m sorry but it would seem unworkable.