Raynox DCR-250 Super Macro Snap-On Lens

I bought this lens to use with my Canon EOS 6D Mark 2. It fits on my camera, clipping a big snugly into place. I am satisfied with the amount of additional zoom I get for the money spent. I've used it for pictures and for time lapse videos. It isn't some kind of ultra super high resolution thousand dollar lens, but it gets you to the point you can see a single speck of dust on a bee's knee, or an individual hair on a spider's chin. I uploaded a couple recent pics so you can see how close of a zoom you'll get if you spend the money on this lens. A spider, a mayfly on a window screen, and some snails. I like the lens for now for what I'm doing with my photography.

best macro lens! used this with my fujifilm 90mm f2 and x-s20 and it allowed me to take a photo of a tiny basil flower

Major YouT**ers rave about this product and I had to buy one. A good product but immediately found out the focus plain is not flat and it was tough to keep the focus in the middle and corner at the same time even though I was macro-ing a flat object. The only way was to stop down aperture but still….. will be ok for center positioned object but not so for a flat object.

I've got both the DCR-150 and DCR-250. Originally I purchased them for my Richo GX-200 as they screw directly in to the lens extender/adapter for the Ricoh. However, my macro shots were no closer or tighter than before! Then I did the math. My Ricoh has a macro range of 1cm by default. In order to use additional lenses (wide angle, telephoto, macro, etc.) the adapter places the add-on lens out away from the camera's lens. Consequently, at 1.5x and even 2.5x magnification, because the sensor was now further away, I couldn't get any closer to my subject.So, lesson learned. On a camera that is capable of extremely close macro work, you likely won't be able to get in any tighter using these lenses.That said, using it with the Canon Rebel 2Ti with the 18-55mm lens made a huge difference. Using the mount, the lense attaches easily to the Canon lens. Normally, that specific Canon lense has a usable macro distance of about 5-6 inches. With these, I can get within 3 inches with the 150, and just over 2 inches with the 250. (You can even stack them if you really want to geek out, but it's a bit challenging to thread two adapters and two lense together.)Another way to compare is how small of an area can I get a shot of. Distance from the subject is one thing, but size of the subject is another great way to explain the lenses. So, by default with the 18-55mm lens, I can shoot something a approximately 2.5" wide. With the DCR-150, I could get about 1.625" wide to fill the entire shot (2 nickels). With the DCR-250, I got down to 1.25" (a 50 cent piece). I did stack the two, and could get a quarter to fill the entire shot.Depth of field is of course, very short, so try to shoot straight on, or realize you will have much of the shot out of focus. Of course, that can certainly be the goal when shooting macro. Being that close to a subject will also affect lighting, both from flashes and shadows from you and the camera, so again, play around to understand exactly how it's going to work.I obviously like using coins as a reference, and shoot them so as to understand the macro capabilities of the camera and lenses I'm using. For example, on the stacked shot I took of a quarter, shooting it at about a 45 degree angle, the only part clearly in focus was maybe 12 of the ridges on the side and two of the numbers in the 1992 date (approximately 1/16 of an inch!). Figure a focus range of about 1/4" for the 150 and an 1/8" for the 250.So, for those starting to play with macro work, first see what your camera is capable of. Then consider the DCR-150 as a great addition. I think the DCR-250 is a little more than is absolutely necessary, but as has been mentioned, if you want to focus on just one eye of the bug you're shooting, that's the way to go. It just requires a tremendous amount of patience!

It's adjustable and Universal (see the specs in it's ad on Amazon). I've used it on my small 50mm lens, and on my 28-105mm, 'was a nice tight fit on both. Comes in a nice plastic container and made in Japan.I'm just now getting very interested in macro, so with my cheap 50mm Nikon kit lens, here are a couple of shots at reasonable distance and then with the lens attached. The closeups were approx. 2" from the subjects. It was a little pricey but I'll get lots of use with it. I'm happy to have it!

Easy to use and works great

I use this product to photograph insects in my backyard. In the attached photos, the colder/brighter/fly-fully-in-focus shot is a crop of a bare macro photo. The warmer/softer-light/tighter-focus shot is a crop from a photo using the DCR-250. (Both are of the same fly, at 100mm, closest focal distance, f/29, with two full-sized off-camera speedlights illuminating the fly. Both are shot with a Tokina 100mm macro lens on a Nikon D7100.) It can be difficult to get shots of bugs with the DCR-250: it takes me about 10 seconds of moving in and out to get the shot in-focus, and at only 4-5" between the front of the lens and the subject--most bugs won't tolerate that level of close attention, and they disappear before I can get a shot--but when I can get them, the details in the photos are great!The DCR-250 takes an already thin Depth-of-Field, and makes it razor-thin. Closing the aperture to f/29 is my best answer for opening the DOF a little--but it also means that the camera needs really intense lighting to expose the shot in a reasonable amount of time: thus I always shoot with flash for my macro shots.This is more than 1:1 macro; as the size of the in-focus frame is about the size of a dime for the DCR-250 on my 100mm lens, (in other words, the width of a 10 cent-piece is the width of the picture I can take with this. Other lenses with other focal lengths can fit more / or less / into the frame, but this gives some idea of how close this device can take you to small subjects.)Being able to quickly remove and re-install the DCR-250 is very nice. (Most bugs won't stay-put while I do so--so I can't take comparative shots like the attached ones very often--but I still appreciate being able to quickly remove or to use the DCR-250.) I also appreciate that I can use the DCR-250 on any of my lenses, without purchasing any lens-size converters.For tiny subjects, the DCR-250 is a great way to extend the magnification, to get good shots of smaller subjects.