Up Close - Kevin Burke

Advantages: Convenient and easy to use
Disadvantages: Lower quality than a macro tube lens.

...Close up lenses are designed to be screwed onto the front of your normal camera lens in order to change the closest focusing distance. The Canon 500D Close-up Lens is a small double-element lens that screws onto the filter threads on a standard (non-macro) lens. Such close-up lenses result in higher magnification when used with longer telephoto lens. In essence they allow you to get close up to your subject matter and are ideal for macro-photography. It allows your normal lens to be focused at a much closer distance- resulting in a higher magnification of the subject. The Canon 500D Close-up Lens is intended to be used on lenses with a focal length of 70mm-300mm and is designed to be used with most Canon EF lenses on the market. The Canon 500D is a doublet type close-up lens that gives a correction for chromatic aberration. What... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Easy to fit and compatible!
Disadvantages: Some images came out too soft

...i bought this lens for a college project on freedom, i was photographing plants very close up and this lens was a lifesaver! I manages to get some great shots of plants and bugs in motion on plants. It's lightening speed and crystal clear! Only problem was that some of the pictures were slightly too soft so it would have been nicer if they had been a little sharper to begin with so that i could have cut down the time i spent on photoshop but anyway, for the price, it's a great lens for close up plant and garden photography! Or i imagine it would be good for anything close-up. It's easy to use and attach to the camera. I have a canon eos400D and it fitted fine and worked like a dream!... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: The voice
Disadvantages: None

...**Introduction** As a fan of Soul music One of my favourite artists has got to be the legendary soul singer Solomon Burke, With a voice as big as his build Burke is regarded as one of the greatest singers of all time by fans, critics and fellow performers alike. This album is made up of songs written by some of his biggest admirers in the music industry. All the songs were written especially for Solomon Burke and this album Don't Give Up On Me. A diverse range of artists wrote songs for this album including the likes of Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Brian Wilson, Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello aswell as the album's producer Joe Henry who wrote the song "Flesh and Blood". Some well known songwriters there but will the album work well or not. well here are my thoughts. **Don't Give Up On Me** 1 Don't Give Up On Me This is a superb... Read review

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