70-200mm with closeup filter enough to capture mosquitoes up and close?
As someone who regularly uses close-up lenses onto zoom lens may I respond ...
1)- firstly the item is NOT a filter because it does not alter the colour or tone of the image, -and- it is curved causing the focus to be set by the curvature of the glass. The item is a Close-up Lens !
2)- As to actual close-up lenses, regrettably there are damn-awful cheapies out there and also some real-beaut-mate ones out there. For a good lens, expect to pay $1 per mm of diameter for a single-element lens and maybe $1,50 per mm for a 2-element lens
3)- For your 70-200 I would recommend a "+2 dioptre lens which will focus at 1/2-metre max to 1/3-metre minimum"
4)- I do not know the mm filter-size of your lens so can't offer much beyond 'look at genuine / well known brands
Hope this helps ... with close-up image using a close-up lens attached for comparison. The subject is the Aussie "Golden Orb" / Nephila spider, female in its web. Lens to subject distance 'about 1/3-metre'
Phil
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