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hi there could someone please advise me on the best lens or adapting kit to take close up photos of flowers water drops etc i have a canon 600d camera and new to it all!!!!!!!!!!! would this lens do? Canon EF 100-100 mm f/2.8 USM Lens
 
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Best and most expensive is probably a macro lens. If you get a longish one (100, 150mm etc...) it increases your working distance and that could enable you to get shots of things that are likely to be frightened and run or fly away should you get too close.

Extention tubes are cheap but you lose infinity focus.

Close up screw on filters are cheap but not to the quality of a dedicated macro lens.

Flowers are relatively easy, for water drops you may need flash to freeze the action.
 
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Maybe giving us a budget might help determine what you could go for, be it short term initially to make sure you really want to spend money on a decent macro..

I've seen some pretty awesome work here from folk using extension tubes:D
 
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Maybe giving us a budget might help determine what you could go for, be it short term initially to make sure you really want to spend money on a decent macro..

I've seen some pretty awesome work here from folk using extension tubes:D
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as little as possible as i said just started out........
 
Someone sent me some extension tube links to look at awhile back as it's something i want to get in to more.. if i can find them i'll post them up, if not someone else maybe able to.. searching for your camera and extension tubes should give you a rough idea... ebay/amazon etc all do them
 
Or a Raynox DCR-150 or DCR-250
Clip on macro adapter that works best on a longer lens (200mm or so)
Can be picked up for about £35 for a used one or try Amazon - quite cheap on there:)
 
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as little as possible as i said just started out........
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Problem is "little as" is a relative term to the user.

It could be £500 or it could be £200.

A macro lens would be good, as above a 100 or 150
 
cheap options for you.

get your lens, find the filter size, maybe 58mm?? and add on a close up filter
I've used one and am getting another, but i'm not into macro photography, I just want to try out a few things. Cost £6-15

New lens? very expensive but the cheapest decent option I think is the sigma 105mm f2.8
Decent ish and a great addition to your lens collection as it's good for portraits too. over £100
 
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Have a look at this very recent thread.

Extension tubes are the cheapest option, I'd rule out cheap close-up filters as adding cheap glass to a lens is not going to improve the quality of the image.
 
'Reversing Ring', puts the lens on back to front, works for me, cheap as chips, well worth a look,
Jim
 
I get great results with the dcr250. For £35, you cant beat it IMO
 
Close-ups of flowers/water drops? A decent P&S camera would be my first choice (I use my Fuji x20 for most of this type of stuff). For "true macro" I am quite fond of the helicoid "zooming" extension tubes... often attached to my 150mm macro.

I've seen some excellent results from those Raynox filters....excellent enough to make me rethink my opinion about those "macro filters."
 
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Close-ups of flowers/water drops? A decent P&S camera would be my first choice (I use my Fuji x20 for most of this type of stuff). For "true macro" I am quite fond of the helicoid "zooming" extension tubes... often attached to my 150mm macro.

I've seen some excellent results from those Raynox filters....excellent enough to make me rethink my opinion about those "macro filters."
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For £40, the Raynoxes are a great way into cheap macro and close-up - DCR-250 (+8 diopters) for bugs and beetles, and DCR-150 (+4.8) for flowers and butterflies.

They're a lot better than the cheapo single-element meniscus close-up 'filters'. Raynox is a fully coated three-element design with an adjustable clip that fits on the front of most lenses and works well with anything from about 50mm upwards.

The other thing about them is you need to stop down a bit to get sufficient depth of field, and this improves edge sharpness considerably. Not that the edges are usually very important with macro where the main subject is often central and the edges out of focus anyway.

Here are 31,000 example images I prepared earlier :D http://www.flickr.com/groups/raynoxdcr250/
 
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