Loupe

What do you do when your 100-600mm lens dies and it's not repairable or cost effective to try( no parts )?

You make a loupe out of it. For now it's just the objective lens on the front tube. I will make a new to so that is doesn't neck down. Lens was sitting in drawer for a couple years broken ( electronics ) I was about to toss it out when I decided to pull it apart and keep the glass bits. I looked at the slides on my light table with the objective lens and thought that was pretty sweet, new loupe.

It actually works quite well and is sharp.

I can do that with working lenses too.

Except trying to use the complete lens in this case would have been difficult. I have used lenses in the past but they dont give the wide view this does. Considering I was going to toss it, this worked out well.

I use a 50mm lens as a magnifying lens.

The view through this is waaaay better than a 50mm lens