Tokina 17mm reversed on a Nikon PB-6 bellows

For those of you who shoot with bellows, you're probably aware that reversing lenses gets you higher magnification. I've been shooting with an old 28mm 2.8 Ai-S lens for over a year now, and have reached mags close to 7:1. I read Nikon's chart where they stated a 20mm reversed would get to 11:1.

So, just for S&G, I got an adapter ring for my Tokina 17/3.5 SL so I could reverse it on my PB-6 bellows. I set up a US dollar bill, and moved in. This is the top part of a number 5 in the serial number.



I figure I'm at 15:1 here. I'll toss on the extension rings some day and see where that gets me.

Cool work

LOL, I first looked at this as started down the road of what the crap kind of picture... Then I realized the magnification was so great that I wasn't seeing it for what it was. That is way cool!

Awesome stuff!!!

It would be good to add a picture of the whole note as a comparison ... makes you appreciate the degree of magnification.
cheers

As promised: Reversed 17mm on the PB-6 bellows with 68mm of Kenko extension tubes.

(I gotta figure out why it's vignetting)



The is the "D" in "AND", in the phrase "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE".


The setup:







By my poor method of measuring (using an ordinary ruler marked to 1/16"), the letters measure just less then 1/16", so let's say 1/20". That's 1.27mm. Of the 4016-pixel height of the D600 frame, the letter (roughly!) covers 3162 pixels. That's ~18.89mm.

So, last time I went to skule, 18.89 / 1.27 = 14.87 : 1 magnification. Ah, let's just round it off to 15:1 and call it good.

Very good !!!! - what sort of "lights" are you using?
I'm just looking for some PB-6 bellows on e-bay at the moment, it opens up a whole new world of "things" to shoot...
cheers