macro rings

~baigaisartis Jun 24, 2012

Hi! Maybe someone can help me with a choice of macro rings! I need a more or less cheap solution to make some macro images of fruit slices!

I think that this solution maybe could do it, but to be honest i don't know the technical specifications i should watch choosing them because i have seen much expensive ones and i don't know the difference! So i would be happy to here some references or advices!

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I have a canon 450d camera with Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM Lens and i am going to buy a canon 5d mark 2 camera!

Thanks!

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~eyeballman Jun 27, 2012

Extension tubes would be the best solution to shooting macro without a dedicated lens. As ~Caraway quite correctly points out, closeup filters are cheap, but do not produce high-quality results.

~baigaisartis Jun 25, 2012

ooo yeah! Thanks for the good advice! Didnt thought about such a posibility!

~Xmiaww-im-a-muffinX Jun 25, 2012 Student Photographer

an easy thing to do is just buy macro filters from ebay. I have the same camera and bought them without the extension tubes which worked just as well... I've never found use for extension tubes to be honest though so not sure how they'd effect the image more then just using the filters on the end of my own lens. I'm not sure exactly who I bought the filters from on ebay now but this is the general thing you might want

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or something similar

~Caraway Jun 25, 2012 Student Photographer

Extension tubes and macro filters do "the same thing", but the tubes will generally give a better result. Extension tubes are empty tubes that move the lens farther from the body; filters are pieces of (usually bad if the filters are cheap) glass. Putting more glass between your subject and sensor reduces the overall quality.

~Xmiaww-im-a-muffinX Jun 25, 2012 Student Photographer

Well I haven't used extension tubes even though I have some but I've never had any problems with the filters although I will admit that they're obviously not going to be as high quality as a lens etc that's a lot more expensive but I've never found them to produce bad quality images unless I myself have managed to get the filter dirty and failed to clean it properly

You make a very good point with the fact that putting more glass between the subject and sensor could affect the image though

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