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Help required for a beginner....I am thinking of getting some extension tubes to fit my Nikon D60, does anybody know a reasonably priced source?
My set arrived yesterday not had much time to play with them yet but they seem fine to me.
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Although they are not the Kenko ones at £8.50 and delivered within 24 hours I can't complain at that price
That is cheap, pls let me know if they are any good
Thank you for the other replies the Kenkos seem to be the most popular
...so the cheap ones can be fine but with the basic tubes you're stuck in wide aperture (unless your lens has manual aperture control on it like some old SLRs rather than on the camera body)
Not necessarily. Whilst the expensive variants are better in most of the cases there is one where the cheap variant outshines them. It does not limit you to use the lens for your camera brand. And you don't even have to use adapters in some cases - just buy two sets of extension rings for different camera mounts from the same seller - the camera attachments are replaceable so you can have Nikon lens easily attached to Canon and vice versa. It limits the usage to full manual but then again there is plenty of cheap older manual lenses (for M42 mount for instance) around that have full aperture and focus controls. I agree this may not be ideal but it is dead cheap and you can for example get extension set, M42 convertor to you mount and a decent old M42 lens for less than you will pay for the automatic extension tube.