Re: ATM Closeup camera

["Mark E Nurczyk" <mnurczyk@mwt.net>]

Go to any camera store and ask for a set of closeup lenses.  They screw into
the filter threads on the front of your lens.  a set of three, a standard
set, should cost less than $50.  You can use the lenses singly or in any
combination to get any closeup that you want.  The set I have for my SLR
allows me to focus from about 3 inches to 14 inches depending on which
lenses I have screwed onto the front of the normal lens.  Be careful and use
a tripod to support your camera, the depth of field is reduced it will take
some experimenting to get the exposure right.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: David H. Bevel <davebevel@mindspring.com>
To: atm@shore.net <atm@shore.net>
Date: Monday, June 01, 1998 7:39 PM
Subject: ATM Closeup camera


>
>
>Hi all.
>
>Do any of you optics experts think it is anyway feasable to mount a small
>lens onto a 35 mm camera, the cheap none SLR autofocus type, so it can
>focus within 10 to 12 inches of an object?
>  I want to take some closeups of my ATM handywork to put up om my web
>page.  However I am not into spending hundreds of dollars on a camera for
>this one little capability.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>David H. Bevel
>davebevel@mindspring.com
>Norcross, Georgia
>My humble little WEB site:
>
>http://www.mindspring.com/~davebevel/index.html
>