Macro fun...

Mark bought me a new set of extender tubes for my lenses so that I can do some macro photography. Unfortunatley, I went out of town right after I got them and didn't get to play - but he did!!

These things are pretty cool! They're different from an actual macro lens because all they really do is extend the current lens you have to alter the focal length. The result is pretty neat! You can get closer to the image and capture more detail.

One of the side effects though is that the focal area is very small in some cases (catching only one stamen or grain of pollen).

Here you can see Macie's foot - you can see the detail of each little hair on her foot (and a fuzzy that was stuck to her nail!)

The tubes he got me were made by Kenko. They come in three sizes and combined can give you about 9 different focal lenghts. I've been attaching it to my 50mm but want to try it on the L-series lense next.