The most one has sold for lately on ebay is $2800, 2 at that price and others sold for less down to around $2100 with the average around $2500.

EDIT: Upon closer look, there has been one lately sold on Oct 14 for $6132.75, said it was a "buy it now" purchase so no way to tell who bought it.

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This looks like something that ebay might want to be interested in since they hammer so much on stopping fraud. Does anyone have any pull with ebay and want to tell 'em about it? These people only accept PayPal and they're pretty tight on fraud. Of course, I guess the only thing going on here is bilking some stupid people out of their money, huh, or an attempt to? B&H lists this camera for $2798.

Well, I scanned rather hurriedly through what had been said this morning before I posted, reading some and skipping over some gibberish and felt I had a pretty good grasp of what had been said but threw in that disclaimer in case I seemed to be repeating someone's words verbatim. After your comment, I just went back and read word for word what had been said prior to my posting, taking all the side trips to the urls and reading, and sorta got the idea that a person new to tubes might not be understanding or pulling together the scattered information from all the posts so I thought I'd put it in a little clear language just in case.

I do think I contributed in a positive way and that I did say a couple of things that hadn't been clearly covered and made a little more sense of some of what had been said, at least from my perspective and the perspective of a person totally new to ext tubes. If I failed to do that then I apologize for taking up space here in this subject but I don't think I made the situation any worse than it already was, for sure. I thought posting was encouraged. In reading here for a few weeks or months, I had gotten the impression that we don't all always say things as clearly as some people need things said to get the point so a few overlapping replies may lead to a better understanding. What's wrong with that?

Thanks for the welcome folks. I'll see if I can't join in and post some photos soon.

If I read it right this A55 on ebay you provided the url for comes with two lens, 18-55, and 55-250 for $200.00. That's a heck of a deal. I'd jump on that immediately if I was looking for a DSLR for $200. Oh YOW!

EDIT: I see that's not a "buy it now" and that there's been one bid already.:oops: There's a good chance the selling price will go higher but it's worth watching, maybe. :roll: Looking at the closed auctions on ebay, only one A55 with those lens has sold lately and it went for just under $300, still a good deal but out of budget in this case.

I haven't read everything so I may dupe what someone else said. First, put your camera in "M" (manual) mode and select your most wide open aperture and see if that gives you a brighter image in your viewfinder. Did you buy a set of 3 tubes and did they come in a box with all three put together as though they are one tube? If so, take the three apart and just put the thinnest one on and see if that lets you have more light. Then add another which should cause your picture to be a bit darker.

A big problem you have is that with the 60mm lens you have to get real close to your subject and when you add ext tubes that'll cause you to have to get even closer and if you're not careful, you'll block all the light to your subject. You may have to add in some light like maybe with a small led flashlight or something that will get light under your lens without getting it in your lens. Tinker with all this and see if you cannot figure out what you need to do to use the tubes with your 60mm lens. You may find out that it is impractical to try to use all 3 of the tubes you bought unless you want to pick up another lens like maybe a 105 or 180 later if you should desire to pursue macro further. The best use of your tubes may not be with the 60mm lens. You might even try using the tubes on a longer lens you already have like a zoom, maybe a 55-250 and zoom it out some to get more distance between the end of your lens and your target. Don't be afraid to experiment. If you experiment with a regular zoom lens as opposed to the macro, you most likely want to shoot your subject in the center of the lens because with the curved front lens you will start to see some out of focus parts around the edges. Macro lens are flat so they don't have that problem so much. Oh, and you might want to go into manual focus and not count on the autofocus to work.

They're just taking advantage of the damn fools that say "you get what you pay for." Here's several of 'em on auction on ebay right now and the first one is just sitting there waiting on the first sucker who has no clue of what's going on but wants to "get what he pays for." LOL!

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I don't think so!!! Nothing about a camera has the potential to take your hand off at the wrist. An illogical analogy calls the rest of your comments into question.

They may. When I lived in TX I remember in the fall hearing a lot of people all the time saying something about "burning them f*****g leaves."

How come you people be so hard headed? Digital Photo Professional (DPP) is a very good program and nothing is gonna process Canon Raw files like DPP. All of the strength of the features of DPP aren't readily intuitive but Canon have some tutorials that explains it all. If you haven't looked at it, and you should suddenly do so, you'll feel stupid for not looking at it earlier and especially stupid for not buying a camera because your outdated Adobe software is... well, outdated. They'll catch up, of course, but not looking at DPP is certainly no reason to not accept shipment of a new model camera. I use DPP for about 90% of my image processing. It does all the necessary stuff including compositing, hdr, noise control, color, contrast, you name it and it does it almost all but layers. That's probably on its way. Oh, and if you can't find your disc that came with your camera, you can download it at http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras and select your camera type and go to drivers and software downloads.

Good idea. Maybe I can get some guidance on how to make this pepper plant look better. I'll take all the help I can get. I've just got a little point and shoot camera and haven't used it very much.

Oops! Something happened to my picture and now I can't get it to load up again. I'll keep on trying. And it looks like I put this in the wrong part of the forum.

I read somewhere just the other day, I think it was on this forum, where somebody said that Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw are the exact same program and that Adobe Camera Raw is built into Photoshop Elements 12 under the "File" menu, and that there was also an organizer built into Elements that will do about what Lightroom does on that end of things. Whoever said that also said he had talked to an Adobe engineer and he confirmed that information. If what I read is true, I don't think I would be buying Elements and Lightroom.

...no kin to Slick Willie Clinton. I've been reading the subjects here for a few weeks and decided I needed to join up so I can get lots of guidance as I slip in here to see what I can learn about all this photo stuff. It should be a lot of fun.