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.