Fotodiox 52mm Filter Thread Lens, Macro Reverse Ring Camera Mount Adapter, for Nikon D1, D2, D3, D3x,D3s, D100, D200, D300, D300s, D700, D40, D40x, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D3000, D3100, D5000, D7000

by Fotodiox

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001G4NBSC
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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  • #6 in Camera & Photo > Accessories > Lens Accessories > Adapters & Converters
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 15, 2008

Product Description

By mounting the lens backward on a camera body, you can create amazing macro images. It is extremely fun to turn you lens into a macro lens.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Amazing Macro Capabilities!, February 3, 2009

By 

Eli Houston (Alabama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fotodiox 52mm Filter Thread Lens, Macro Reverse Ring Camera Mount Adapter, for Nikon D1, D2, D3, D3x,D3s, D100, D200, D300, D300s, D700, D40, D40x, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D3000, D3100, D5000, D7000 (Electronics)

This thing is amazing. I was looking at some $700 macro lenses, but thanks to this I no longer need one.

Because there is no glass in between the lens and sensor, the image quality is not affected at all. What you get are clear, crisp macro images.

I experimented with this (see the product pictures) and was shocked at how good it worked. Yes, everything must be done manually - exposure, focus, etc. But it's definitely worth it. You can get VERY close to your subject - I was only about one inch away and the focus was great.

Thanks to this, I saved $700 and now can take amazing pictures with my kit lens (18-55mm) and Nikon D40.

Some tips:
To get the best results and focus the absolute closest, zoom your lens out as wide as it will go. The pictures I have submitted were taken at 18mm.

Use as much light as possible. I used a simple flexible desk lamp to light my subject, and still had shutter speeds of about 1/2 a second.

Use a remote release - you need to reduce vibration as much as possible.

When focused VERY close, all the dust on your lens and camera sensor will be visible in the photo. You can take it out fairly easily in Photoshop, but it is best to keep things as dust-free as possible.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes Great Pictures!!! Details on how it works, its limitations, etc., October 4, 2010

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Roc - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fotodiox 52mm Filter Thread Lens, Macro Reverse Ring Camera Mount Adapter, for Nikon D1, D2, D3, D3x,D3s, D100, D200, D300, D300s, D700, D40, D40x, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D3000, D3100, D5000, D7000 (Electronics)

When I bought this, there was limited information in the description, so I bought it thinking it isn't much money, and it could be returned if it didn't do what I hoped it would. Stuff i wish I was in the description when I bought it:

This adapter allows you to mount a fast lense with a 52mm filter thread backwards on your F mount camera.

This must be used in full manual mode on dslr cameras.

This worked as intended with our f1.8 35mm lens.

This will be less useful with slow lenses, because there won't be enough light to find focus. It worked, but not well enough to try to get any pictures with the 55-200 lense at 55, and didn't work well at all at 200 (to dark to see focus).

On our 55-200 zoom lens at least, the zoom ring works as a focus ring, making it so you can get perfect focus on a tripod without a macro mount or moving the tripod. A fast extending barrel zoom with an aperture ring might actually be better with this than a macro prime lens.

Old lenses might have convenient aperture rings, but modern lenses will require you to manually adjust aperture against minor spring tension. At first I thought I would jam the aperture open with something (delicately), but it turns out that you need to adjust aperture to get good shots handheld. This is because you need light to focus, and you need depth of field to get good macro shots of most stuff (the F1.8 35mm reversed and set to f1.8 doesn't have enough depth of field to put the top and bottom of the mint mark on a coin on focus at the same time). If this paragraph doesn't make sense to you, you are unlikely to be happy with this item.

With our 35mm lens reversed, we get somewhere about 2:1 reproduction ratio. That is both awesome, and somewhat frustrating. It is frustrating in that since working distance is how you focus, you can't back up to get a bigger area in the shot. It appears that longer focal lengths give lower reproduction ratios and greater working distances.

Still, the image quality we get is stellar (as good as the F1.8 35mm nikkor is capable of frontwards).

Unlike the screw-on-the-front macro adapters, or diopter filters, etc, the image quality seems to be as good as the lens you use it with. So picture made with this are harder to make, but excellent quality is possible, not just "excellent for the price."

I freaked out when it wouldn't come off of the lens. No worries. The proper procedure for using this is to install it onto the lens finger tight, then install the lens onto the camera. When you are done with it, REMOVE THE LENS first, then the adapter from the camera. This does not have an extremely tight fit to the camera body, and pressing the release button, it comes right off.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect. Don't waste your money on the Nikon version!, January 13, 2010

By 

Adrian J. Reynolds "adrianj" (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fotodiox 52mm Filter Thread Lens, Macro Reverse Ring Camera Mount Adapter, for Nikon D1, D2, D3, D3x,D3s, D100, D200, D300, D300s, D700, D40, D40x, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D3000, D3100, D5000, D7000 (Electronics)

Forget the reviews that claimed it was impossible to use. This thing is simple and works perfectly.

Nothing else really needs to be said. You lock the lens adapter on the body of your camera just like you would any lens, then screw your actual lens onto the the other end of the adapter, head-first.

when done, just unscrew the lens and remove the adapter just like you would any other lens, or remove the lens and adapter as one unit, then unscrew it from the front of the lens.

Dead-simple. Don't spend $30 for the Nikon-branded one. it's a waste of your time and money.

My equipment (all of which tested to work with this adapter):

Nikon D40
50mm f1.8 Nikkor (prime)
18-55mm Nikkor (standard lens)
55-200mm Nikkor

If you have a D40 and have any interest at all in trying out Macro photography, don't hesitate.

Understand, this approach is not going to be a perfect solution to side-stepping all macro lenses, but it will work well until you save your pennies up for a true macro lens. will add pictures soon.