System camera Black felt Pringles can Standard lens, but assembled backwards
Make this macro extension tube out of $5 worth of materials.
Photography is often seen as an expensive hobby, it against your camera body, you can take photos but here’s a way to create a lot of fun for very little up close. In theory, the farther away from the money: a macro extension tube you can make for camera you hold your lens, the higher magni-less than $5 worth of materials. fication you get. The problem is that the “air”
between the camera and lens element can’t have
Macro Tube Theory any light leaking in. Furthermore, there cannot be The concept of a macro tube is as old as pho- any lens movement when you take photos, as this tography itself. Normally, a lens takes incoming will result in blurry photos. The solution? A macro parallel light and focuses it down onto the film or extension tube, which holds the lens and shuts imaging chip. By turning the lens the wrong way out light. around, the opposite happens: light focused in on Extension tubes and bellows can be bought, a small area is refracted to become more parallel. but that’s definitely more expensive and prob-
With the lens in its wrong-way configuration, ably a lot less gratifying than building something either by using a reversal ring or by just holding yourself. For our tube, we’ll use a Pringles can,
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