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<blockquote data-quote="aroy" data-source="post: 310644" data-attributes="member: 16090">It really surprises me when some one want to achieve a goal, without any preparation, as though once they have the device in hand a &quot;Divine Insight&quot; will enable them to handle and get results; in this case a camera; perfectly. There are some things that you can learn &quot;on the job&quot; and there are things which you need to learn from books. A bit of preparation never hurts. If you do not know what your equipment does, or how to get a job done, but know only what you want, it will not help you. In fact at times it can lead to disasters. You are lucky that you did not put an old Flash Gun on your camera. It would have fried the mother board. If you want every thing to work out of the box, then a Cell Phone or a Point &amp; Shoot is a better tool. You get what you see on the screen. Other wise :. Read up on the net about Macro Photography. There is no short cut here.. Read you camera manual from beginning to the end. Learn what your camera does and how.. Read up and understand what Aperture, Speed and ISO are and how they are inter related.. Reversing a &quot;&quot;G&quot; type lense will relegate your aperture to its maximum value, here it is F22.. Reversing a lense will loose all the dialog between the lense and the camera, hence your camera has no idea of what the focal length is, what aperture is set and at what distance you are focusing. All these are required for the flash to fire in TTL mode.In short there is no short cut to success. Study &amp; prepare and you will succeed fast. Fiddle blindly with the camera and it will take a long time to get what you want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aroy, post: 310644, member: 16090"] It really surprises me when some one want to achieve a goal, without any preparation, as though once they have the device in hand a "Divine Insight" will enable them to handle and get results; in this case a camera; perfectly. There are some things that you can learn "on the job" and there are things which you need to learn from books. A bit of preparation never hurts. If you do not know what your equipment does, or how to get a job done, but know only what you want, it will not help you. In fact at times it can lead to disasters. You are lucky that you did not put an old Flash Gun on your camera. It would have fried the mother board. If you want every thing to work out of the box, then a Cell Phone or a Point & Shoot is a better tool. You get what you see on the screen. Other wise : . Read up on the net about Macro Photography. There is no short cut here. . Read you camera manual from beginning to the end. Learn what your camera does and how. . Read up and understand what Aperture, Speed and ISO are and how they are inter related. . Reversing a ""G" type lense will relegate your aperture to its maximum value, here it is F22. . Reversing a lense will loose all the dialog between the lense and the camera, hence your camera has no idea of what the focal length is, what aperture is set and at what distance you are focusing. All these are required for the flash to fire in TTL mode. In short there is no short cut to success. Study & prepare and you will succeed fast. Fiddle blindly with the camera and it will take a long time to get what you want. [/QUOTE]

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