Senior Member Registered: January, 2010 Location: Gothenburg, aka Göteborg Posts: 233 | Review Date: September 23, 2010 | Recommended | Price: $110.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | Magical, sharp as a needle, and tranforms any lens to a marco lens | Cons: | Cost and weight, not least the 77mm is real heavy! | | The 77mm 500D (the version I tried first) transformed my Tamron 10-24 to a closeup delight, and the Tamron 70-200/2.8 became even more a macro master, than before!
The 52mm 500D transformed the kit lens, of course, but even more amazing results when used with Olympus 9-16mm wide zoom, on an Olympus PEN.
To my surprise the Olympus wide zoom (when used with the 500D) could still focus at infinity, and yet the 500D improved close ups a lot!
The smaller 500D is much cheaper than the big one, of course.
The lens name is derived from the focusing distance whith the main lens focused at infinity, thus infinity becomes 0.5 meters, or 500mm!
All my Pentax Ltd lenses use 49mm filter thread, and as Canon doesn't make any 49mm 500Ds, I only could use it on my kit lens - with a 55 to 52 Raynox step-down adapter ring it did fit my Tamron 90 Macro, as well, but didn't do much good there, as the Canon lens ends up so far in front of the front lens Tamron element (over 50mm).
The Pentax Ltds (and the FA) I have all use 49mm filters, but I discovered that the Hama rubber lens hood I have for my FA50/1.4 has a 52mm thread inside, thus the 52mm 500D fits inside it! So now I can use the 500D on the DAs, and the FA!
Wonderful!
Well worth every nickel!
Addendum:
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Since then we've got a 58mm version, too!
And ordered a 250D, that is an identical lens, but for infinity at 250mms distance!
Addendum II
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The 250D (52mm diameter version) arrived today and it works superbly with the kit lens - highly recommended!
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