--- product_id: 434657 title: "Fotodiox Macro Reverse Adapter Compatible with 52mm Filter Thread to Nikon F Mount Cameras" brand: "fotodiox" price: "€ 26.31" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 category: "Fotodiox" url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/434657-fotodiox-macro-reverse-adapter-compatible-with-52mm-filter-thread-to store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # Up to 2:1 reproduction ratio for stunning detail Reverses 52mm filter thread lenses for macro All-metal anodized aluminum build Fotodiox Macro Reverse Adapter Compatible with 52mm Filter Thread to Nikon F Mount Cameras **Brand:** fotodiox **Price:** € 26.31 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ” Capture the unseen β€” elevate your Nikon with macro magic! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Fotodiox Macro Reverse Adapter Compatible with 52mm Filter Thread to Nikon F Mount Cameras by fotodiox - **How much does it cost?** € 26.31 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/434657-fotodiox-macro-reverse-adapter-compatible-with-52mm-filter-thread-to) ## Best For - fotodiox enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted fotodiox brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Manual Focus Mastery:** Full manual control lets you fine-tune focus and aperture for pro-level macro photography. - β€’ **Compact & Lightweight:** At just 0.4 ounces, carry it effortlessly and never miss a macro moment on the go. - β€’ **Unmatched Image Quality:** Unlike cheap diopters, this adapter preserves your lens’s native sharpness and clarity. - β€’ **Precision Metal Craftsmanship:** Durable anodized aluminum ensures a secure, long-lasting fit without plastic compromises. - β€’ **Transform Any 52mm Lens into a Macro Powerhouse:** Unlock incredible close-up shots by reversing your lens on Nikon F mount cameras. ## Overview The Fotodiox Macro Reverse Adapter lets you mount any 52mm filter thread lens backward on Nikon F mount cameras, enabling high-quality macro photography with up to 2:1 magnification. Crafted from premium anodized aluminum, it offers durable, lightweight construction and requires manual focus and exposure control for precise, professional results. Ideal for millennial pros seeking affordable, versatile macro capabilities without carrying extra lenses. ## Description By mounting the lens backward on a camera body, you can create amazing macro images. Fotodiox offers an affordable and easy way to get a macro lens. Review: Makes Great Pictures!!! Details on how it works, its limitations, etc. - When I bought this, there was limited information in the description, so I bought it thinking it isn't much money, and it could be returned if it didn't do what I hoped it would. Stuff I wish I was in the description when I bought it: This adapter allows you to mount a fast lens with a 52 mm filter thread backwards on your F mount camera. This must be used in full manual mode on dslr cameras. This worked as intended with our f1.8 35mm lens. This will be less useful with slow lenses, because there won't be enough light to find focus. It worked, but not well enough to try to get any pictures with the 55-200 lense at 55, and didn't work well at all at 200 (to dark to see focus). On our 55-200 zoom lens at least, the zoom ring works as a focus ring, making it so you can get perfect focus on a tripod without a macro mount or moving the tripod. A fast extending barrel zoom with an aperture ring might actually be better with this than a macro prime lens (other than the the manual metering issue many cameras will have with that arrangement). Old lenses might have convenient aperture rings, but modern lenses will require you to manually adjust aperture against minor spring tension. At first I thought I would jam the aperture open with something (delicately), but it turns out that you need to adjust aperture to get good shots handheld. This is because you need light to focus, and you need depth of field to get good macro shots of most stuff (the F1.8 35mm reversed and set to f1.8 doesn't have enough depth of field to put the top and bottom of the mint mark on a coin in focus at the same time). If this paragraph doesn't make sense to you, you are unlikely to be happy with this item. With our 35mm lens reversed, we get somewhere about 2:1 reproduction ratio. That is both awesome, and somewhat frustrating. It is frustrating in that since working distance is how you focus, you can't back up to get a bigger area in the shot. It appears that longer focal lengths give lower reproduction ratios and greater working distances. Still, the image quality we get is stellar (as good as the F1.8 35mm nikkor is capable of frontwards). Unlike the screw-on-the-front macro adapters, or diopter filters, etc, the image quality seems to be as good as the lens you use it with. So picture made with this are harder to make, but excellent quality is possible, not just "excellent for the price." I freaked out when it wouldn't come off of the lens. No worries. The proper procedure for using this is to install it onto the lens finger tight, then install the lens onto the camera. When you are done with it, REMOVE THE LENS first, then the adapter from the camera. This does not have an extremely tight fit to the camera body, and pressing the release button, it comes right off. Update (12/2013): Shortly after the original review back in 2010, I ended up installing this to an old underwater camera lens purchased at full retail (used) for $15. The underwater lens is awesome in that the glass is excellent for the price I paid, and the manual aperture adjustment is a knob that protrudes from the side of the lens body. It was only so inexpensive because no one uses the camera mount it is made for anymore. I highly encourage others to use the same trick. The best photos I've ever taken (ignoring the value of documenting family events)have been with this reversing ring and the $15 old underwater lens. This also avoids the problems some others have had (which I have not) of getting the ring stuck on a nice lens. Review: Great Value - Fotodiox customer service has ALWAYS been fast, incredible and accommodating to me in the past. Delivery is fast! Not sure about all their products but they've only delivered good products for fair prices to me so far. I need to try even more of their items. I find it's very difficult to rely on ratings here for anything. This product is AWSUME! No, it isn't as good as having a dedicated macro lens but it's good in a pinch if you don't have lots of $ for a macro lens. Also, if weight's a factor it's great not to carry an extra lens all day just to get a couple macro shots here or there. It's very light, and made from metal, not plastic. I love it! I purchased the 52mm first because I have 2 prime lenses that can fit it. 50mm 1.8 D and 28mm 2.8 D. This system probably works best with faster wider aperture lenses as these. "I still need to try other sizes". It works great on both my old D70S and my D300. YOU MUST USE "M" manual setting on these both or you might get F error messages and no shots. I discovered a GREAT TIP to share! If you have "Live View" and use older lenses with the manual dial for f stops in back, "Non G Lenses", you can adjust and see the actual DOF, "depth of field" real time live before you shoot. However, your ISO, shutter speeds, and or possibly exposure settings may need to be experimented with because the camera's light meters wont work. Also, good light and a tripod are a must. Forget about focus. You must move the camera back and forth to focus on my primes. Example, a quarter 25c coin. With a 50mm 1.8 it focuses aprox 4 to 5 inches away. This same coin nearly fills the entire frame of my DX crop sensor on the D300. I honestly discovered some #s never seen before at the bottom edge of the Washington bust of a newer coin? No way can I see this with the naked eye. Hope this helps. ## Features - Mounts lenses with Ø 52mm filter thread to a Nikon F camera - Reverse mounting lenses enables macro abilities - All metal anodized aluminum construction - Premium grade Fotodiox adapter ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B001G4NBSC | | Aspect Ratio | Unknown | | Best Sellers Rank | #60 in Camera Lens Adapters & Converters | | Brand | Fotodiox | | Camera Lens | A 52mm filter thread adapter for Nikon F cameras, enabling macro photography with any lens that has a | | Camera Lens Description | A 52mm filter thread adapter for Nikon F cameras, enabling macro photography with any lens that has a Camera Lens Description A 52mm filter thread adapter for Nikon F cameras, enabling macro photography with any lens that has a See more | | Compatible Camera Models | Nikon F mount cameras | | Compatible Camera Mount | Nikon F | | Compatible Mountings | Nikon F | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 Reviews | | Exposure Control Type | Manual | | Focal Length Description | 52 mm | | Focus Type | Manual Focus | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00812759010625 | | Image stabilization | no image stabilization | | Item Weight | 0.4 Ounces | | Lens | Macro | | Lens Mount | Nikon F | | Lens Type | Macro | | Manufacturer | Fotodiox Inc. | | Manufacturer Part Number | 52-NKF | | Maximum Focal Length | 52 Millimeters | | Media Type | ProductImage | | Minimum Focal Length | 52 Millimeters | | Model Name | Macro Reverse Ring for Nikon - Camera Mount to Filter Thread Adapter | | Model Number | Reverse-Mount-52mm-NikF | | Photo Filter Size | 52 Millimeters | | Screen Size | 52 Millimeters | | UPC | 812759010625 | | Water Resistance Level | Not Water Resistant | | Zoom Ratio | 1:1 | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Fotodiox - **Compatible Mountings:** Nikon F - **Focal Length Description:** 52 mm - **Lens Type:** Macro ## Images ![Fotodiox Macro Reverse Adapter Compatible with 52mm Filter Thread to Nikon F Mount Cameras - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61zW1FM8DiL.jpg) ![Fotodiox Macro Reverse Adapter Compatible with 52mm Filter Thread to Nikon F Mount Cameras - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51AHLT9ksZL.jpg) ![Fotodiox Macro Reverse Adapter Compatible with 52mm Filter Thread to Nikon F Mount Cameras - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61iBJo9tvbL.jpg) ![Fotodiox Macro Reverse Adapter Compatible with 52mm Filter Thread to Nikon F Mount Cameras - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61rqcRbg97L.jpg) ![Fotodiox Macro Reverse Adapter Compatible with 52mm Filter Thread to Nikon F Mount Cameras - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71QWA+0I-ML.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Pattern, Size, Style** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Makes Great Pictures!!! Details on how it works, its limitations, etc. *by R***C on October 4, 2010* When I bought this, there was limited information in the description, so I bought it thinking it isn't much money, and it could be returned if it didn't do what I hoped it would. Stuff I wish I was in the description when I bought it: This adapter allows you to mount a fast lens with a 52 mm filter thread backwards on your F mount camera. This must be used in full manual mode on dslr cameras. This worked as intended with our f1.8 35mm lens. This will be less useful with slow lenses, because there won't be enough light to find focus. It worked, but not well enough to try to get any pictures with the 55-200 lense at 55, and didn't work well at all at 200 (to dark to see focus). On our 55-200 zoom lens at least, the zoom ring works as a focus ring, making it so you can get perfect focus on a tripod without a macro mount or moving the tripod. A fast extending barrel zoom with an aperture ring might actually be better with this than a macro prime lens (other than the the manual metering issue many cameras will have with that arrangement). Old lenses might have convenient aperture rings, but modern lenses will require you to manually adjust aperture against minor spring tension. At first I thought I would jam the aperture open with something (delicately), but it turns out that you need to adjust aperture to get good shots handheld. This is because you need light to focus, and you need depth of field to get good macro shots of most stuff (the F1.8 35mm reversed and set to f1.8 doesn't have enough depth of field to put the top and bottom of the mint mark on a coin in focus at the same time). If this paragraph doesn't make sense to you, you are unlikely to be happy with this item. With our 35mm lens reversed, we get somewhere about 2:1 reproduction ratio. That is both awesome, and somewhat frustrating. It is frustrating in that since working distance is how you focus, you can't back up to get a bigger area in the shot. It appears that longer focal lengths give lower reproduction ratios and greater working distances. Still, the image quality we get is stellar (as good as the F1.8 35mm nikkor is capable of frontwards). Unlike the screw-on-the-front macro adapters, or diopter filters, etc, the image quality seems to be as good as the lens you use it with. So picture made with this are harder to make, but excellent quality is possible, not just "excellent for the price." I freaked out when it wouldn't come off of the lens. No worries. The proper procedure for using this is to install it onto the lens finger tight, then install the lens onto the camera. When you are done with it, REMOVE THE LENS first, then the adapter from the camera. This does not have an extremely tight fit to the camera body, and pressing the release button, it comes right off. Update (12/2013): Shortly after the original review back in 2010, I ended up installing this to an old underwater camera lens purchased at full retail (used) for $15. The underwater lens is awesome in that the glass is excellent for the price I paid, and the manual aperture adjustment is a knob that protrudes from the side of the lens body. It was only so inexpensive because no one uses the camera mount it is made for anymore. I highly encourage others to use the same trick. The best photos I've ever taken (ignoring the value of documenting family events)have been with this reversing ring and the $15 old underwater lens. This also avoids the problems some others have had (which I have not) of getting the ring stuck on a nice lens. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Value *by O***! on August 27, 2011* Fotodiox customer service has ALWAYS been fast, incredible and accommodating to me in the past. Delivery is fast! Not sure about all their products but they've only delivered good products for fair prices to me so far. I need to try even more of their items. I find it's very difficult to rely on ratings here for anything. This product is AWSUME! No, it isn't as good as having a dedicated macro lens but it's good in a pinch if you don't have lots of $ for a macro lens. Also, if weight's a factor it's great not to carry an extra lens all day just to get a couple macro shots here or there. It's very light, and made from metal, not plastic. I love it! I purchased the 52mm first because I have 2 prime lenses that can fit it. 50mm 1.8 D and 28mm 2.8 D. This system probably works best with faster wider aperture lenses as these. "I still need to try other sizes". It works great on both my old D70S and my D300. YOU MUST USE "M" manual setting on these both or you might get F error messages and no shots. I discovered a GREAT TIP to share! If you have "Live View" and use older lenses with the manual dial for f stops in back, "Non G Lenses", you can adjust and see the actual DOF, "depth of field" real time live before you shoot. However, your ISO, shutter speeds, and or possibly exposure settings may need to be experimented with because the camera's light meters wont work. Also, good light and a tripod are a must. Forget about focus. You must move the camera back and forth to focus on my primes. Example, a quarter 25c coin. With a 50mm 1.8 it focuses aprox 4 to 5 inches away. This same coin nearly fills the entire frame of my DX crop sensor on the D300. I honestly discovered some #s never seen before at the bottom edge of the Washington bust of a newer coin? No way can I see this with the naked eye. Hope this helps. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You will also probably have to bring your subject into focus by manually moving it towards/away from the camera - or as I found *by A***Z on September 14, 2015* A simple, no nonsense reversing ring that does the job admirably - this design has been around 'forever' and long predates digital photography. You won't get auto-focus or auto-exposure with this ring and you won't even get aperture control for your Nikon DX lenses. But once you understand that this is a simple, all-manual adapter, it provides a lot more utility than the price would suggest. Long exposure times are the norm, as your lenses will probably default to fully stopped down to minimum aperture. Depth of field is also minimal (normally in fractions of a millimeter) which is to be expected with a lens working in 'reversed' mode. You will also probably have to bring your subject into focus by manually moving it towards/away from the camera - or as I found more useful - putting the camera on a table top tripod and sliding it towards/away from the subject. A little fiddly to work with when mounting the lens on the camera (hint - screw the ring onto the lens first, then attach to the camera, to remove I suggest unscrewing the lens from the mount first THEN removing the ring from the camera body). In the end though the creative possibilities of macro photography are endless and well worth the price of this well made unit. ## Frequently Bought Together - Fotodiox 52mm Macro Reverse Ring Camera Mount Adapter for using Nikon SLR Camera and lens with 52mm filter thread - Fotodiox Macro Extension Tube Set Compatible with Nikon F Mount Cameras for Extreme Close-up Photography --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.at/products/434657-fotodiox-macro-reverse-adapter-compatible-with-52mm-filter-thread-to](https://www.desertcart.at/products/434657-fotodiox-macro-reverse-adapter-compatible-with-52mm-filter-thread-to) --- *Product available on Desertcart Austria* *Store origin: AT* *Last updated: 2026-06-08*