- How much r u willing to spend? ---> close up or extension tubes are the cheapest route. 
- What kind of pictures r u interested to take? ---> may determine your interested focal length or DOF that u r looking for.
- What lens do u alrdy have?   ---> potentially just add close up lens or extension tubes.
- Ready/Willing to use tripods when doing macro shots? ---> VR may help you if u want to do handheld shots.
- If go by macro lens, willing to use manual or do u want auto focus? ---> I'm using tamron SP AF 90 (no VR lens) and sometimes pair with Raynox & tripod ... I do try them with extension tubes too (macro+ET+raynox). But I don't have nice pics to share.. hehe. I'm noob.

There r many options out there. Macro lens, close up lens like raynox or others, extension tubes or ... a combination of these three for a supper macro works! hehe
I'm also a newbie ...

pic spam :

Which one looks nice/appealing to you guys eh?
Was playing around with single light source, editing and tones/colors.
**All shot with D3100 + Tamron SP AF 90
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I have another two pics if you are willing to look at them too.


Thanks!

I feel like to take macro photography, currently not enough budget for a macro len and check out that wide + close up filter can get in few hundreds. So would like to seek advises from everyone that is it wise to buy close up filter? or just save for a macro len better? If it is worthy, which 1 should I buy? Thanks.
Only having 18-105mm and have a stable tripod, few gear only as I'm still a student.

Some of your photo are soft or out of focus, just my 2 cents. I'm newbie too.

not out of focus but shallow depth of field

Hi guyz. My friend plan to sell their nikon d7000 along with lens 18-105mm, 8gb sd card and bag for RM3,300.
He bought it on 30th Oct 2010 with 1 year warranty. SC is 11,000. Did you guyz think the offer was ok? That camera don't have any prob though.

some test shoot after getting the SP90. after that notice that flash is very important when shoot handheld in macro

U can get new one for around 3850..
Bt his SC is low, so, it should be fine..cz when ur fren bought it, it is 4k plus..if it's a camera without problem, then u can consider to buy it from him cz u'll save some $$ which can help u get some lens later.

Actually I miss typo about the date. He bought it on 2011, not 2010. My bad.
And he rarely used too. That's why SC so low.
Maybe I will make a deal with him 2morrow. Thanks for your thought

me using d7000 and want to buy a fisheye lens, so the lens is the 10.5mm ones, but i was wondering if i take the 16mm fisheye fx lens, will i get the same 180' angle of view?

me using d7000 and want to buy a fisheye lens, so the lens is the 10.5mm ones, but i was wondering if i take the 16mm fisheye fx lens, will i get the same 180' angle of view?

Nope, buy the DX fish eye if you want it as a fish eye lens. FX fish eye is only a fish eye on FX.

me using d7000 and want to buy a fisheye lens, so the lens is the 10.5mm ones, but i was wondering if i take the 16mm fisheye fx lens, will i get the same 180' angle of view?

i got a samyang 8mm.
dont need to MF la...cos the depth of field is very big.

cincai shot with the 8mm at f/5.6.
can see the big depth of field already.

when ur shooting up close, even at f/8 will still able to tell if OOF or not .    I like it close and personal xD