| ★★★★★ | Up close, closer, closest. |
| Size: Marumi DHG Achromat Lens 200 72mm | Verified Purchase |
| Cranked it on a Fuji GF 120mm F4 close up lens to achieve more Macro magnification. Extremely righteous portrayal of a budding weed. I'm collecting +3 +5 magnifiers in 52, 62, 72, and 77mm threads for a complete set. If you go the auxiliary lens route you'd appreciate having both +3 and +5 as they'll manage foreground and background to subject perspective and out of focus framing better. At really close focus it's tricky to frame subjects surrounding details as tiny camera movement results in huge wallop on the sensor - film plane. The Marumi achromat lens does not interfere with the host lens resolution or contrast so what you put it on only allows vastly closer focus. Cheap trick with a big kick. |
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| ★★★★★ | Close-Up Lens Works Great! |
| Size: Marumi DHG Achromat Lens 200 55mm | Verified Purchase |
| I use the Marumi close-up lens with my Sony A6000 and Sony 18-135mm, and it works great! Previously the closest I could focus was about 12 - 14 inches at the 135mm setting (200mm in 35mm terms). Now with the Marumi close-up lens I can focus about 7 - 8 inches. I calculated that I should be able to get close to 1:1 magnification. I cannot detect any chromatic aberrations, and the images are sharp. Only drawback to this very high magnification is that the DOF is thin, so it is better to mount the camera on a tripod, and use focus stacking software if you need more DOF. I would definitely recommend this lens if you need lightweight, high magnification. |
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| ★★★★★ | Solid Construction |
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| After using this lens a bit I thought I'd change my review. First of all the quality is surprisingly good. You can buy them in the size to fit your lens or buy a bigger size and use them with a step-up ring so they will work with several different lenses. The only disadvantage of buying a bigger size is that they are a bit heavy and the bigger the size the heavier they are. In my opinion they work best with a zoom as a zoom enables you to change the magnification as you zoom in and out. The +5 works best with a zoom in the 50-200mm range and the +3 works better in the 200 - 300mm range. The +5 is too strong as you get near 300mm and the +3 is too weak as you approach 100mm or less. If you get one too strong you can't focus because the magnification is too high and if it is too weak you may as well crop a photo a little rather than buy this lens. Once the lens is attached then the focusing range is reduced so you would have to remove it to focus outside it's range. With a true macro lens you can focus close or as far away as you please. Other than these limitations they are capable of taking very nice closeups. They are easier to use than adding extension tubes. Unlike extension tubes adding one of these lenses doesn't change the aperture but you often have to stop down a bit anyway to get all of your subject in focus. Since good macro lenses such as the Tamron 90mm macro F2.8 runs between $400 and $500 it is worth trying one of these lenses. Don't buy the cheap single element ones as the quality is terrible. These are dual element achromats. |
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| ★★★★★ | So Glad I found This! |
| Size: Marumi DHG Achromat Lens 330 67mm | Verified Purchase |
| I've been a photographer for more years than I want to think about. But I hadn't found out about achromatic close up lens, and I am sure glad I finally did. I wanted to dabble in macro photography again. My prime macro lens is excellent, but it is for a 35mm camera. Kodachrome is no more and I now have an investment in digital equipment. I looked at the Lens Baby line, but I'm getting lazy in my "golden years" and like using aperture or shutter priority on my camera with the through the lens meter. A prime macro with image stabilizstion (unfortunately I'm a handheld journalist type) was way beyond what I felt I could reasonably justify. And the more affordable prime macro 1:1 didn't have image stabilization. Tripod use would be mandatory for this not able to hold a 1/10 second exposure handheld without the shakes any more woman. Extension tubes require a stop or more exposure added (with more possibility of the shakes) plus I would lose the zoom function of all my lenses. I've not invested in prime lenses for my digital camera. I'm not wanting to do true 1:1 and play with all that math. I just want to have some fun looking down the throats of flowers and getting up close and personal with pretty rocks and shells. I love this lens. I'm saving up to get the +5 version of it also. My photography teaching son was shocked by the quality of my first efforts with this lens. Thank you! Thank you! Would I love having a true macro prime 1:1? You betcha! But this is giving me the fun to play in this area again without having to seriously raid the food budget. |
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| ★★★★★ | great optically, packaging not as good as before |
| Size: Marumi DHG Achromat Lens 200 72mm | Verified Purchase |
| Five-star product optically. However I am disappointed that the pouch is now hard-plastic, rather than the felt-padded leather as in the last time I bought this product and is still shown in the picture. Sometimes I wish manufacturers would just embrace inflation and increase their product price by 2% every year, instead of slowly eroding the user experience via cost-cutting. |
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| ★★★★★ | pleasantly surprised |
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Works way better than I expected. When used properly I see no distortion, no fringing, and no loss of sharpness on my Nikon D7000. When shooting at wide apertures, I saw some fringing in the out of focus areas towards the edge of the frame.
I tested with two lenses, Nikkor 18-105 AF-S and Nikkor 70-300 AF-S. I found this filter very practical on the 18-105 for close-up product shots, but at the long end of the 70-300, it really turns the camera into a microscope... you can't photograph anything larger than a small coin or more than a few inches away from the camera.
I found at 300mm the DOF is so narrow, I had to shoot at f/40 with a long exposure to get a decent test shot of a strawberry. At shorter FLs, decent shots of rounded objects can be had at f/8 to f/16. Much lower than f/8 only works for flat objects, or artistic blurring effects.
The autofocus works well enough most of the time, if you first get the camera in the general vicinity of where the focus should be. |
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| ★★★★★ | Very nice image quality using this |
| Size: Marumi DHG Achromat Lens 330 58mm | Verified Purchase |
| Very nice image quality using this. Threads onto the lens very smoothly. Also designed and sized well - I've never noticed any vignetting when using it. Comes with a handy little case to protect it when you carry it in your gear bag. The change in minimum focus distance that this close up lens allows is good for what I would call mid-range macro. Not super close up - better for flowers than tiny bugs, for instance. |
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| ★★★★★ | Love it! |
| Size: Marumi DHG Achromat Lens 200 62mm | Verified Purchase |
| This was so worthwhile! I really wanted to take some macro photos, but I'm an amateur and I can't justify the cost of an expensive, separate lens. Also, I did purchase a 35mm macro lens for another camera, and frankly, I hated having to totally switch out lenses when I wanted to use it. This macro add-on lens fit my Nikon Tamron 18:270 telephoto lens perfectly! Takes great macro photos as well. |
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| ★★★★★ | Worth it |
| Size: Marumi DHG Achromat Lens 330 67mm | Verified Purchase |
| This is a quality piece of add on glass that will allow some great macro shots (provided the lens you are using is decent). It might very well satisfy your urge to do once and a while close ups rather than spending almost 10X more on a dedicated macro lens that could sit on a shelf more than you think. Well worth a hundred bucks. Like another reviewer said, too bad about the flimsy case... I agree. Oh well. |
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| ★★★★★ | Excellent optics, nice packaging |
| Size: Marumi DHG Achromat Lens 330 58mm | Verified Purchase |
| It's a nice bonus that the lens comes with a little velvet-lined leather case that fits it snugly so bringing jt along on shoots is a cinch. The lens itself is as good as many reviews around the Internet have claimed, and because the glass is as wide as the opening of the lens you're supplementing (unlike some cheaper alternatives) there's no danger of vignetting. The only note of warning I would sound to potential buyers is to consider the degree of magnification you'll need for the kind of subjects you'll be wanting to photograph. If you're looking to take photographs where you can see the eyes of a fly, you should consider the +5 200 instead, which has greater magnification. I used the +3 330 on a 300mm (35mm equiv) lens and the magnification is not enough for insect-sized objects. But it's perfect for extreme close-ups of flowers, for instance. |
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