Opteka Close-Up Set (+1, +2, and +4) with 10x Macro Lens for Canon Powershot S5 IS and S3 IS

Opteka Close-Up Set (+1, +2, and +4) with 10x Macro Lens for Canon Powershot S5 IS and S3 IS

Product Details

Amazon Sales Rank: #28550 in Camera & Photo

Brand: Opteka

Model: OPT-CU4-S5IS

Features

Simply screws onto the lens adapter that is included

Allows super close-ups, photograph details which would be otherwise impossible

Enables you to get much closer than the minimum focus of the standard camera lens - as close as 4 inches from the subject

High definition optics produce sharper, more intense pictures

+1, +2, +4, 10x macro, and lens pouch included

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Customer Reviews

Uselss
I have an S3 and the macros are good, but I wanted to get even closer. This product doesn't do that for me. I tested it out for quite a while after I received it. I stacked all of them, so it should have been several times magnified, but I found no difference between the pictures with the macro lenses on and with them off. Quality actually looked worse with the lenses on, and it was hard to focus (the autofocus wouldn't work with all those lenses).

This product is absolutely useless. I resold it for much less than I paid, just a few days after I bought it. I completely regret buying it.

wholly unnecessary gadget
This set of lenses is offered as an attachment for use with the Canon S5 and S3. I bought it to enhance macro photos, the reason that I bought my Canon S3 camera in the first place.
The Canon S3 has some very good macro capabilities. In SuperMacro the degree of close-up resolution is amazing and excellent. This set of lenses offers no additional improvement over what the camera already delivers.

I took an entire series of pictures: With the Camera in regular more, regular mode plus each Opteka lens, in Close-up mode without adding these lenses, then with the lenses, and again, the same series in SuperMacro, with and without the Optekas. I found no discernible difference between close-up in macro mode with lenses, and close up in SuperMacro. SuperMacro with the lenses did not increase resolution but did increase light requirements.

I returned the set because it simply didn't add much of anything to what the S3 is already capable of on it's own.

If you DO buy these, be sure. I bought them from 47th Street Photo and they were strict about their re-stocking fee. By the time you are done paying shipping fees both ways (their shipping charge was more than actual shipping), then get hit with a restocking fee, it isn't much different than an eBay seller that sells a $.99 item with a $10 shipping fee. The lenses were returned in perfect condition with all original packaging (all I ever did was test them to see if they "worked," they don't) but was still slammed with restocking. If you buy these from 47th Street, plan on owning them whether they work for you or not.

Price: $24.95
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