Need help getting sharp close ups

"With my 35mm I like the 200 on the camera with the 50 reversed and taped on to the front of the 200. With this combo you can see the buttons on an ant's pants, but the depth of field is measured in microns, so you'll only get one of the buttons in focus," - says I.

So I though that you might like to see how close you can actually get with a quick dodgy setup.

A little Black Ant at about 3mm in length. The smallest ant that I could find.


http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...ssa/TheAnt.png


With this combination, I have made a microscope. You can see that the depth of field is very shallow ... but more than adequate to produce an interesting handheld shot. I waited for the ant to run into focus.

Warren.