Travel photography tips: Know your camera and its limitations – The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com

Travel photography tips: Know your camera and its limitations The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com, OH - 27 minutes ago On recent trips, I've taken two SLR digital camera bodies; a wide-angle (16-35 mm) and telephoto (70-300 mm or 70-200 mm) lens, both with UV filters; …

Canon EF S 55 250mm f 4 0 5 6 IS Telephoto Lens Hoya UV Filter Accessory Kit for Digital Rebel XT XTi XSi EOS 30D 40D Digital SLR Cameras

Canon EF S 55 250mm f 4 0 5 6 IS Telephoto Lens Hoya UV Filter Accessory Kit for Digital Rebel XT XTi XSi EOS 30D 40D Digital SLR Cameras

Kit Includes: 1) Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Telephoto Lens; 2) Hoya G Series 58mm UV Filter; 3) Cap Keeper 2 Lens Cap Strap; 4) Deluxe 6-Piece DSLR Camera Cleaning Kit ♦

The Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS telephoto Zoom Lens is designed with Canon’s Optical Image Stabilizer technology while retaining compactness and lightness, in response to demands of photographers. This high zoom ratio lens is equivalent to a focal length of 88-400mm in the 35mm format (when used on Canon EOS cameras compatible with EF-S lenses), and the image stabilizer effect equivalent to a shutter speed about 4 stops faster than the same size lens without Image Stabilizer. In other words, if the slowest shutter speed you could formerly hold a 250mm lens steadily was 1/250th of a second, with Canon’s 4-stop stabilization correction, you could hand-hold at shutter speeds as slow as 1/15th of a second. It also uses a UD-glass lens element to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. ♦

The Hoya Ultraviolet UV Filter is a multi-purpose, fine-weather filter that is designed to optimize your photography experience. UV filters, absorb ultraviolet rays that often make outdoor photographs hazy and indistinct. They should be constantly fitted to a lens to provide improved clarity and color balance, as well as to provide additional protection to your lens. ♦ The CapKeeper 2 is an elastic loop, which wraps around lens barrel of your camera, with lens cap leash. It prevents lens cap loss with adhesive-backed disc attached to the cap. The CapKeeper 2 is designed for SLR cameras with interchangeable lenses and video cameras. Never lose you cap again. ♦ This 6-piece cleaning kit contains everything you’ll ever need to properly clean your lenses, including a hurricane air blower, Lens Cleaning Tissue, Lens Cloth, Lens Cleaning Liquid, Brush and Cotton Swabs.

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BOWER Close Up Set 5 52MM BLACK FCC52MM

BOWER Close Up Set 5 52MM BLACK FCC52MM

The Bower Digital Macro Filter Kit includes three close-up diopters of +1, +2 and +4 magnification, a durable leatherette carrying case, a lens cap, and a “cap keeper” strap. These filters simply screw onto the front of any 52mm filter-size lens to magnify the image size while maintaining resolution and picture clarity, effectively transforming your lens into an amazing macro lens. As an added benefit, you get this increase in magnification without any exposure loss for truly no-fuss close-up photography. Plus, these filters are male/female threaded, which means you can combine them to achieve even greater magnification (all the way up to a total of +7 if you wish) — or you can attach additional standard filters such as polarizers and UV filters, or even special effect and colored filters for even more interesting and creative photographs. >>> These macro close-up filters are ideal for photographing small items and focusing in on details of coins, stamps, flowers, insects, and jewelry — as well as industrial photos of miniaturized components, medical and dental laboratory work and other scientific photography.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Fun.

Not too bad for a cheap set of filters. I’d like to shake the hand of the genius who thought to include the lens cap since the standard Nikon cap goes too deep when affixed, and could potentially scratch the filters.

The resolution on these is actually better than I expected.

Unfortunately, they don’t work on my 55-200mm VR lens, but I didn’t expect them to (bummer. I wanted that VR to really help). However, they do work great on my non-VR 18-55mm kit lens. Keep in mind, if stacked, they will cause some serious vignetting at the 18mm end –it’s to be expected at the wide-angle, and if you really want to, crop it out, but I find it clears at around 20-25mm.

All-in-all, I’d say this is a good product for the price, and if nothing else, this series of filters is a good alternative to dumping a mountain of money on one of the upper-end macro lenses out there for people who just want to play around with macro photography.

5 Stars Very nice close-up set.
Don’t let the low price fool you, this is a well made close-up lens set. I’m glad I purchased them.

4 Stars great
This product is great, it’s not exactly what I expected, but that was my fault for not understanding. It does what it says that it does. I have taken many pictures with these. They don’t work when my camera is on auto-focus, but that is fine. Great Item! Thanks!

5 Stars Nice kit for the money!
I enjoy taking higher resolution closeups of things I create. The three lenses and lense cap were what I hoped for without spending a high amount.

I’ve been able to take pictures without a tripod under natural lighing outdoors or under florscent lights indoors.

5 Stars Macro/Close-Up
Cheap and wonderful. I use these with a Nikon D40 SKR and they are great. Honest.

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