Ok, I got this idea from another forum I subscribe to.

The coin you're looking at is an old Dutch "rijksdaalder". It's about 2.9cm (1.14") diameter. The red square is what you see enlarged in the main picture.

How did I do this? I took my Nikon 70-300mm and a fixed 50mm lens. Taped the 2 together with the fronts of the lenses facing eachother. The 50mm is an old non AF lens with manual apeture control so I could open it up completely. Set the 50mm to focus on infinite. Then focused with the zoom lens which was pretty iffy since the DOF is VERY small, around 1mm (0.04"). The 300 zoom was attached to the D70.

My setup wasn't completely shakefree, but I got a decent enough image for a test :) Shot on 1600ISO setting on my D70 cause the combination taked alot of light and since I had my hands on the contraption to keep it in focus I had to shoot fast.

Anyhow, just wanted to share :P

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