It looks like a pro attachment after you sprayed the cap (Vinyl Dye is great stuff.) It looks good!
Thanks.
The best thing about it is that it attaches itself to the camera very firmly, I can hold the tube, shake the camera and it doesn't fall off, and still its very easy to put on and off the camera. I guess I was really lucky finding a plastic cup that was just the perfect size por it.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.(I don't know why there are two videos, I typed the link only once)
I in the first post said I didn't get vignetting, but that was before I had the lenses.
I got a little vignetting with the polarizer, but I fixed it by filing off a couple of millimeters from the plastic cup using sandpaper. Now the pictures are clean.
You can see that now the lens gets a little closer to the thread when zoomed at 10x
I don't care about vignetting with the close up lens becouse it is supposed to be used with the zoom at full telephoto.
I think the only thing that you are going to discover is that you are not going to get great shots by stacking your glass. (Sort of like trying to fry ants with a magnifying glass under another magnifying glass.)
It may create some cool effects though... You will have to post some photos of what the results are from the mod.
OK, some sample pictures
Polarizer filter. It works just as it should. I can make the sky bluer, the clouds whiter, enhance contrast and eliminate reflections.
I couldn't notice any loss of quality in the pictures using the polarizer. Not too bad for a $6 chinese filter.
The +8 lens is another story. Although it works as advertised, meaning you can focus closer when you have the filter on. The pictures don't look good. There's a lot of blurring and chromatic aberration specially on the edges, the center of the picture comes out OK-ish. I did a little research and it turns out that this is a common problem with this kind of lens. It has nothing to do with the fact that it was a cheap chinese lens, it's something about light refraction, so this lenses have some inherent physical limitations. Check out Washington's eye on the one dollar bill.
That's a resize of the picture, here's a 100% crop of the eye
My advise: Think of these close up lenses as toys. Buy one to try it out if you want, but don't expect to get nice pics.
If you really want to get some nice macro pics don't waste your money on cheap lenses and buy a Raynox Lens. I bought a DCR-250 and it's 100% pure and uncut awesomeness.
This is an 8 diopter lens so, technically, it should have the same performance as the previous lens. Well, it can focus at the same distance and gives the same magnification, but the results are totally different.
I took Washington's pic with both lenses at the same time and under the same lightning conditions.
Look, no blurring, no CA.
Just look at that eye!
After using the raynox lens I don't think I will ever be using the +8 again. Actually, now I want to buy a Raynox MSN 202, which is a 25 diopter lens.
I have other macro shots I took with the raynox lens, I can post them later, I didn't want to overcrowd this post. You can check some of them on
my Flickr Gallery
