Anyone tried FreeLensing?????

[WVCoalMiner]

101 Photos Taken With the Lens Detached

Take your DSLR in one hand. Unscrew the lens with the other. Tilt the lens away from the camera body-maybe even flip the optics backwards. And take photos that you never imagined you could without expensive upgrades.

Freelensing

[RecurrentNerve]

My camera (Nikon D5000) won't fire without a lens attached, alas.

[Mr Guy]

Originally Posted by RecurrentNerve

My camera (Nikon D5000) won't fire without a lens attached, alas.

Could you trick it into thinking a manual lens is on it with an adapter?

[RecurrentNerve]

Dunno, haven't tried it and don't have an adaptor to do so.

[IABoomer]

Originally Posted by RecurrentNerve

My camera (Nikon D5000) won't fire without a lens attached, alas.

I tried this with a friend's D40 once and it would shoot in full manual mode, although obviously you don't get the benefit of metering, and if your lens doesn't have an aperture ring, then adjusting that is pretty much a "wide open or stopped down to minimum" affair.

There might be a setting in the menus that lets you override the system and shoot without a lens signal, similar to being able to shoot without a camera card in the slot.

[RecurrentNerve]

That's the other thing, the aperture closes right down when I take the lens off. And no, unfortunately there isn't a menu setting to force it to shoot. I will try it in M though.

[IABoomer]

There should be a little lever on the back of the lens that you can move to change the aperture of the lens. I suppose with a small piece of tape you could hold the aperture open, but making fine adjustments obviously isn't going to happen.

[NgaiHill]

Tried this with my Canon, you don't need to move the lens far off the body or too much light comes in from the side. Have seen some good photos on the net of this but mine all just came out blurry, takes quite a bit of practice I think. Was trying it inside so might have a go outside sometime and see if the distance to the subject helps.

[RecurrentNerve]

There should be a little lever on the back of the lens that you can move to change the aperture of the lens. I suppose with a small piece of tape you could hold the aperture open, but making fine adjustments obviously isn't going to happen.

Yes, there is...think I'd rather just spring for a Lensbaby

[AnonymousKiwi1]

Originally Posted by NgaiHill

Tried this with my Canon, you don't need to move the lens far off the body or too much light comes in from the side. .

This could be the answer -

"after eliminating light leaks by having a piece of black cloth draped over my head like a 19th century photographer"

I'd never heard of this technique. Cool results.