This is everything from the past week, plus some stuff I found at the bottoms of pockets and tucked in corners of my bag. I gotta say, it's doesnt look too bad all together. As I was going through this week, I thought I was a bit nuts for having all this stuff in my bag at any given time. But I feel better now, looking at this photo. In case you were wondering, "what kind of bag can hold all this crap?!" Its a Bailey Works 253 Courier (Medium) with a Tenba PP12 photo insert . It can hold all this, and a lot more. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT! All this only takes up about 1/2 the bag. I can easily also fit my Nikon D700 with a battery grip and a couple of lenses, a hoodie, a liter of water, a macbook pro, and what not. The bag isnt even that big. It's just well made and has giant pockets and smart dividers. Pretty awesome stuff. Heres the full run down: - Work gloves - Bandana - Glasses - Titanium Sporks - Crecent Wrench (with more paracord) - Cigarette case/lighter - Pocket Knife with seatbelt cutter and shatter tip - Magnetic pen - 9 in 1 Screwdriver set - Cree flashlight with Tactical Crown - Eco shopping bag - Black plastic bag - Altoids tin with EDC stuff like flint brick, water bag, mini utility knife, band-aids, etc... - lighters - pill case with asprin, stomach pills, water purifying pills - gimmicky whistle/compass/flashlight/thermometer/signal mirror/ firestarter magnifying glass/rope thing - a good flint stick - Gerber multi-tool - Folding mirror - Magnifying glasses - Space Pen - Floss and such (in Altoids Tin) - Weleda Lip Balm - Business (Moo) Cards in Tin - Band-Aids - Toilet Seat covers - Train Schedules - Moleskine Folio Portfolio - Moleskine Folio Notebook - Dragonfly Bookmark - S-Biners cause you can never have enough extra clips - waterproof mini lighter - Tweezers - Flathead screw key - Philips screw key - Mini Pry Bar (Picopry) - Mini Shackle - Tiny Silver Fobs - DIY Monkey Fist Paracord Gaffer's Tape holder - More purdy rope (Paracord) knots. With a silver Axel skull - Utili-Key - Keys - Sony NEX-5 - Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Lens - Taylor & Hobson Cooke Kinic 1" f1.9 Lens - Nikon F - Sony E adapter - C - Sony E Adapter - Sony mini flash - Spare Battery - Remote shutter release - Manfrotto 797 ModoPocket - Len cleaning pen - iPhone (with a plastic edge case and my TLR skin) - iPad (in a DODO Case) - iHDD Hard Drive - Back up battery for the iPhone - Apple's Camera Connection Kit - Wallet - Pocket watch

After taking my fair share of bug shots I was feeling the need for more magnification. After reading and reading endless articles I got the idea to attach a reversed 50mm F1.4 lens to my Nikon 105mm F2.8 VR. My initial testing achieved almost a 3:1 ratio... promising indeed. The decision to build my own despite the availability of commercial products came down to 1) all of them are special order, 2) none of them offered a thread size to match my macro and 3) it's just fun to build your own stuff sometimes =) Parts needed: 62mm to 77mm stepping ring 52mm to 77mm stepping ring six 6-32 1/2" screws six 6-32 acorn nuts* Permatex blue thread-locking compound * chosen to reduce the chance of scratching any photo gear Tools needed: Drill or Dremel with bit philips screwdriver 8mm socket wrench (ignore the epoxy in the pic, as it is not used in this project)