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Close-up and Macro Photography
by
Chuon-Szen Ong

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Editors note
  Introduction
  What equipment
  Micro-Nikkors & Nikkors with macro mode
  Close-up attachment lenses
» Lens reversing rings
  Extension tubes
  Focusing Stage & Copy Stand
Bellows - A
  Bellows - B
  Bellows - C
  Bellows - D
  Viewfinders & magnifiers
  Tripod & Cable Release
Aperture control & DoF
LENS REVERSING RINGS

If all you have are standard and wide-angle lenses, another method of obtaining high magnifications is to reverse-mount them.

Left to right: BR2A Lens Reversing Ring; BR2A with BR-5 62mm to 52mm
internal thread step-down ring

The BR-2A Lens Reversing Ring allows any 52mm front thread size lens to be reverse-mounted onto a Nikon body (or bellows). 

For lenses with a 62mm front thread size, the BR-5 (62mm to 52mm internal thread step-down) adaptor can be attached between the front of the lens and the BR-2A lens reversing ring. 

At right, Reverse-mounted 28mm lens (52mm thread-size) using the BR2A.

Note that the other version of the Lens Reversing Ring, the BR-2, can only be used with the manual bodies that DO NOT HAVE the electronic contacts found on the old and new AF bodies (excluding the F3AF). 

The BR-2A adaptor has been designed specifically for AF bodies, while still compatible with the older MF bodies, by ensuring that the lens' electronic contacts do not come into contact with the adaptor when it is mounted onto the camera body.

At right, a reverse-mounted 20mm lens (62mm thread-size) using the BR2a & BR-5.

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