I need an afforable macro lens - Advice Please

[Sean Setters]

After reading this thread a couple of times, I challenged myself to make a decent macro shot with the gear I had at hand (and was advising on)--extension tubes, teleconverters, a normal tripod, and photoshop. I also wanted to go well past the DLA to see just how bad it can be with the quality loss from 1) the teleconverter and 2) diffraction.

As usual, I also utilized some lighting I had at my disposal. After taking the shot, I darkened it in post and added a fair amount of contrast. I also added a high-pass filter. When viewing at 100% on the monitor, it's not great. However, it's not too bad when scaled down to a reasonable viewing size. The image is uncropped.

Canon 7D
70-200mm f/2.8 L IS Mk I
3 Kenko extension tubes, Kekno 1.4x Teleconverter
f/32 1/250sec ISO 100


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