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      Grab shot of my cat Pipi (aka "Mips"), taken with a "Number Two" macro insert on a Minolta X-700, the camera about five inches away from her nose, Velvia test roll.
      Too bad the old style of Fuji's use-once macro disposable cameras are out of production. Their plastic lenses are perfect for stereo macro hacking, with simple systems based on reverse ring adapters. With my X-700, a rubber septum is friction fit under the mirror for dedicated stereo macro use, so it yields two half-frame chips per regular frame.
The stereo base is about 14 mm and results look quite hyper to me, which is sometimes effective.
      The gentleman who made my #2 insert has made numbers 1 through 4 using the same plastic lenses. The #1 has about a 6 inch field at a 12 inch working distance. Another gent adapted a Yashica to make a dedicated 5p macro camera. Perhaps all of these are like "poor people's" Realist Macros, but as far as I can tell they don't give away much, if anything, in terms of sharpness.

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