Allright, here goes for the first write-up.

Macro Without a Macro lens ?
YES !

Below is my reversed 50mm prime lens fixed to the end of my 70-300mm (note the fashionable tape to hold the lenses together and the wrapped-up, bent paper to hold the 50mm aperture wide open at f:1,7).



This is the full image result, resized, taken from about 4mm from the LCD monitor
Zoom at 200mm, f/18, 50mm at f/1.7, 1/60sec, ISO1600


This is a 100% crop of the image above, the little strip of darker pixels is from the 'r'

Shade

Ram Cloud