flyboy61 Loc: The Great American Desert

Thinking of buying a close up attachment for my lenses. The choices I have are: Raynox 250, Canon 500 D, Adorama Pro point..is it a Canon, rebranded?, or the NiSi 77mm kit.
Has anyone had experience with any of them, and what are your recommendations?
Thank you.

RLSprouse Loc: Encinitas CA (near Sandy Eggo)

I have the Raynox, Canon, and NiSi, but have not done a side-by-side comparison. I'll try to get to that in the next day or two.

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

I have the Canon 500D lens on my Canon 28-300L and I highly recommend it.
Yes, it is a lens and not a diopter.
Bryan Peterson uses it in his videos, on his Nikon lens, gasp!
https://www.adorama.com/ca52cu500d.html?origterm=canon+500d+lens&searchredirect=true
I also use Xume filter adaptors that facilitate fast and easy on-off for times.
Please do yourself a favor and look at the short 1-min. 45-sec video in the second link below.
My Xume (pronounced “Zoom”) filter adapters take away my fears of cross-threading, they make the filters easy to remove, replace or change, and to easily clean your front element. When you use Xume Filter Adapters you may throw away those pesky "filter wrenches".
Watch the 1:45 video at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUPvEgFItt4 Purchasing info at https://www.adorama.com/searchsite/default.aspx?searchinfo=xume+77mm+3.03"+lens+adapter
No, I don’t sell this stuff, but I do use these adapters and they do make life a LOT EASIER!
Smile,
JimmyT Sends

Don, the 2nd son Loc: Crowded Florida

I have the Canon 500D @ 77mm and the 77mm Xume. The 500D is heavy enough that it has slipped off the Xume a few times (when the rig was bumped slightly) and thus I don't use it now for fear of losing the 500D. Smaller diameters would be no problem. Just want to urge caution with 77mm Xume with the Canon 500D!

fetzler Loc: North West PA

Raynox lenses work rather well. Consider a step down ring from your lens filter size to the Raynox lens. I seem to recall that the threads on the Raynox 250 are 43mm in size.

flyboy61 Loc: The Great American Desert

Thanks for the suggestions! I just got a SUPER condition NIKON 62mm #6T two element close up lens at a very good price from da'Bay, and have been playing....experimenting, I MEANT experimenting with it! Looks good, especially teamed with my 100 mm Macro lens, or any of my short zooms. They are mostly 67mm filter size, but stopped down 1 or 2 stops, or cropped just a smidge will take care of most of the 62mm size differential problems, if any.