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Advices needed for close-up lens 500D

Started Jun 10, 2012 | Discussions thread
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Roberto Piazza
Roberto Piazza Regular Member • Posts: 259
Advices needed for close-up lens 500D

hello friends,

today, once again, I have tried my close-up lens 500d, together with my 600d and the 55-250.

And once again I have been frustrated because it seems to me so difficult to use, or at least that it's so hard to get even few satisfactory results: sometimes it seems to be almost unusable.

Depth of field, with the optimum aperture of F/8 is just a few mm (or I'd better say, ONE) and focusing manually or moving back and forth does not help a lot.

I'm thinking about closing more the aperture (around F/20 or so) to get more DOF, and raise the ISO.

I don't have a macro lens, but a friend of mine told me that macro lenses are not much easier to use...

I'd like to hear something from other 500D owners... have you experienced my same difficulties? Have you got advices?

ciao & grazie

 Roberto Piazza's gear list:Roberto Piazza's gear list
Canon PowerShot S100 Canon EOS 70D Canon EF-S 10-22mm F3.5-4.5 USM Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM
Canon EOS 500D (EOS Rebel T1i / EOS Kiss X3) Canon EOS 600D (EOS Rebel T3i / EOS Kiss X5)
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