Customer Reviews

Olympus EX-25mm Macro Extension Tube for E1, E300 & E500 Digital SLR Cameras

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Using this with the 50mm 2.0 lens and the ring flash gives an excellent picture of the fine details - down to a postage stamp. 8 Megapixels spread over that small area (4/3 ") is a very high magnification. I use this with the 50mm f/2.0 lens to get very large photos of small objects (macro) - it's a good combination. I did try it for kicks with my 50-200 mm lens and found the lens had to be set to 200mm to get any focus success, which happened around 3-4 feet from the lens. That combination covered an area about the size of a credit card.

As the warnings state - you are going to be getting the lens close. Normally I snap on the ring flash anyways so it bumps before the lens filter does, but more than once I've looked around and said "wow - I'm right up on it" - note the support ring for the 50mm f/2.0 lens is a good protector even if you don't have the ring/twin flash yet. it will keep your lens protected inside the steel support as it focuses out.

It's best combined with the 50mm F2.0 but it does give you some close in ability with other lenses too. With the 50mm F 2.0 you are close to 1:1 in the image path to sensor. You'll find in the image file if you take a shot of your address on your utility bill that it shows extra specs of toner that dropped around the characters and got fused into the paper. You probably didn't even see them with the naked eye. Great for looking at small defects or combined with the 14-54 or 50-200 you can get a bigger image area.

Remember the lens is no longer bringing the image to focus at the sensor so distances are out of proportion. On the bright side no light loss! It's a great magnifier without any lens defects from a manification screw on filter.

It works very well with the Zuiko 40-150mm telezoom. The first day I got some nice photos to flowers and small animals: spiders, butterfly, and so on. And its price was convenient. Tripod/flash highly recommended.
I recommend this EX-25 extension tube for begineers in macro (as I am).

I bought this lens as an add-on to my 14-45 Olympus lens. I wanted to get a bit closer on macro shots. Buried in the instructions it warned the user to be careful not to touch the lens on subjects your were shooting. And they were correct! You get within an inch or so of what your shooting so do be careful. And, to make this lens (and you) work at it's best remember a tripod and maybe a remote shutter button. For the price it is a great add-on for macro shooters.

I bought this extension tube to see if it would have the ability to take pictures of jewelry. Obviously you need the right set-up, a tripod, lighting etc., but the trick with jewelry is not to get too close because the camera (lense) tends to show up in any polished surface. I'd read some reviews on macro lenses and realized they focus so close to the subject that somebody warned of not bumping or scratching the lense on whatever you're trying to photograph, which for me just wouldn't work. I haven't had a chance to try it properly yet but it looks like it's going to work just fine with the 42-150mm lense that came with the E510 2 lense kit. My old film camera did the same thing with a 75-150mm zoom lense, where it will focus approximately 9 inches or so from the subject, (using an extension tube and a tripod), stop it down to f22 to get the maximum depth of field, and using the zoom ring to focus on the subject since the extension tube changes the dynamics of the lense and the focus ring doesn't work in that situation.

This is an excellent addition for macro photography. It's not a great a product for walking around taking snapshots. A tripod and probably a ring flash setup will render the best results. Getting a sharp focus from an inch or so is very difficult with a handheld camera. Most effective with the 50 mm macro prime lens.

If you are into macro photography, then this is a must have. I searched for lesser expensive tubes, but cheaper ones don't have the quality and features such as coupling for automatic that this does.

I bought this tube to use it with my new 70-300mm. Still I have not tried the tube with it. however, I tested it with the 40-150mm f4 and the result was incredible. you will have to use the manual focus which is recommended for macro shots anyway.

It's high quality kit (made in Japan) and the warranty is worldwide. this is good solution if you can't buy macro lens but great if you have one. Combining this kit with a macro lens will make unimaginable photos.

you must know that using this tube means you can't shot anything except macro unless you remove it from the camera. also you need to be close enough. at least with the 40-150mm.

whether you have a macro lens or not, this kit is a must if you like to take macro shots. Highly recommended.

The EX-25mm Macro Extension Tube is an good investment for those who do a lot of close work. On the whole it seems quit able compared to similar 35mm accessories.

Beyond expectations. Attached to my Zuiko 50mm Macro even set to auto-focus have captured some incredible insects. see: http://bugguide.net/node/view/211149 I use the Olympus E3 professionally and could not live any longer without this capability. Great value! Brings the 50mm to .98, just missing TRUE macro specs, but the results are astounding!

This is a great piece of kit if you want to transform one of your existing lenses into a macro system.