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I really enjoy Macro photography, and have seen some of the topics on here, such as the recent body parts of a fly and the mosquito, both by Ajophotog.

I have seen that he is using a Raynox 202 something or other.
I've had a look round the net, and can't seem to find much about it.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I've kind of figured it snaps onto an existing lens, but I'm still not quite sure.
 
FP, have to admit that I am a fan of Ajophotog's macro but like you I own a Canon. I am determined to find a way (Canonwise) to at least approach his level but I have a feeling its going to take some time and investment. Regards Jim
 
Kentman said:
FP, have to admit that I am a fan of Ajophotog's macro but like you I own a Canon. I am determined to find a way (Canonwise) to at least approach his level but I feeling its going to take some time and investment. Regards Jim
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Like both of you I also use a Canon and have a set of kenko tubes and get great results from it also, one advantage over the panny the canon has is that I use my 430ex on a bracket giving me better light. All that said, I can use the tubes with my 70-300 and the Raynox msn 202 and get 8.7:1 magnification :D:D The Raynox is little more than £30 and I don't reckon you will get anything nearly as good for 3x the cost.;)
 
Sorry, I'm still a little bit confused.

Does it work the same way as a filter, in the way that it just clips on to the end of the lens?
Or does it attach straight to the body?
I've seen that the Panasonic FZ8 is a fixed lens, so that implies that it clips on.

So, I'll be using it on my canon, but what do I need?
 
foodpoison said:
Sorry, I'm still a little bit confused.

Does it work the same way as a filter, in the way that it just clips on to the end of the lens?
Or does it attach straight to the body?
I've seen that the Panasonic FZ8 is a fixed lens, so that implies that it clips on.

So, I'll be using it on my canon, but what do I need?
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It just clips on the front of the lens and fits a thread size of 52-67mm
 
I have been looking at this for a while and the only thing that can get near the Raynox 202 is the Canon MPE 65 at £500 so I will try the Raynox first
 
I didn't feel it necessary to make a new topic, so figured I'd just update here.
I'm also looking to do fisheye photography. I love this effect, and since I'm a keen mountain biker and sports photographer, I think this would be a good thing to add to my arsenal.

Only thing is, the fisheye lenses I've seen are £300 plus.
Basically, what I'm looking for is something along the lines of the raynox 202 macro 'clip-on lens adapter', for around the same price.
Cheers.
 
Ajophotog said:
Like both of you I also use a Canon and have a set of kenko tubes and get great results from it also, one advantage over the panny the canon has is that I use my 430ex on a bracket giving me better light. All that said, I can use the tubes with my 70-300 and the Raynox msn 202 and get 8.7:1 magnification :D:D The Raynox is little more than £30 and I don't reckon you will get anything nearly as good for 3x the cost.;)
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I see that the Raynox msn 202 is 1.5x
They also do a "kit" RAYNOX CM-3500 MACRO EXPLORER KIT that has 6x 12x & 24X (@£69)
do you think the image would "degrade" at these specs or just do away with the need for tubes?
http://www.digitaltoyshop.co.uk/prodtype.asp?PT_ID=932&lg=1&c=RAYNOX
 
Cobra said:
I see that the Raynox msn 202 is 1.5x
They also do a "kit" RAYNOX CM-3500 MACRO EXPLORER KIT that has 6x 12x & 24X (@£69)
do you think the image would "degrade" at these specs or just do away with the need for tubes?
http://www.digitaltoyshop.co.uk/prodtype.asp?PT_ID=932&lg=1&c=RAYNOX
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Hi Chris, the 202 is x4 and the focal plane it tiny with that so I would think it's pretty near unusable any higher. But buy them and make me wrong :-D I would be the first to buy them if I thought they would be any better than the 250 or 202. BTW there is also the 505 but again DOF far to shallow I reckon for what I shoot.
 
Ajophotog said:
Hi Chris, the 202 is x4 and the focal plane it tiny with that so I would think it's pretty near unusable any higher. But buy them and make me wrong :-D I would be the first to buy them if I thought they would be any better than the 250 or 202. BTW there is also the 505 but again DOF far to shallow I reckon for what I shoot.
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Cheers Alby, The link I found was that the 202 was 1.5 :shrug:

http://www.google.com/products?q=Ra...microsoft:en-gb&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title

Obviously you have this cracked so I will leave the others well alone following your advice :thumbs:


 
Cobra said:
Cheers Alby, The link I found was that the 202 was 1.5 :shrug:

http://www.google.com/products?q=Ra...microsoft:en-gb&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title

Obviously you have this cracked so I will leave the others well alone following your advice :thumbs:
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I can only advise with what I've used and that is the 150,250 and the 202 and love them all dearly :love::lol::lol: If you click on the lens on the link you can see it says 4x on it :D Clicking on the details gives you a 9.3x macro, now I'm confused.
 
I have just tried ordering the 202 through digitaltoyshop and the site just keeps sending me back to the homepage instead of paypal payment page.
Anyway there is a 10% discount code for digitaltoyshop if you manage to order it's "REBAJAS"
 
Looks like we will be seeing some close up posts coming here soon then :D
 
Hello all, this is my first post on this forum, I've been a member of the photography-on-the.net forum for a while now. I have a question that I wanted to ask people here as I see there are users of the cm-3500 raynox micro lenses. I just got my set and I tried mounting in on a Tamron 18-250 and a Tokina 100mm macro, but I can't seam to manual/auto focus on anything. It is all blurry and I did check, there is no plastic protectors on the little lens? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
 
These lenses make focussing very close and the DOF is very shallow, make sure you are close enough to the subject, not knowing the cm-3500 I would imagine if it is like the msn202 3 to 7 cms is the distance you should be at. set you focussing to manual and focus to infinity and move the camera back slowly from the subject.
 
I tell you what WOW. This is so cool, thank you.
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