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- #107 in Lens Extension Tubes
Introduction:
This high quality automatic macro Extension Tube Set is designed to enable a lens to focus closer than its normal set minimum focusing distance.
Getting closer has the effect of magnifying your subject (making it appear larger in the viewfinder and in your pictures).
They are exceptionally useful for macro photography, enabling you to convert almost any lens into a macro lens at a fraction of the cost while maintaining its original optical quality. The DG extension tubes have no optics. They are mounted in between the camera body and lens to create more distance between the lens and film plane.
By moving the lens father away from the film or CCD sensor in the camera, the lens is forced to focus much closer than normal. The greater the length of the extension tube, the closer the lens can focus.
It comes as a set (10mm+16mm). It contains 2pcs tubes in different length 10mm/16mm, which can be used in any combination or individually to obtain the different magnification.
Designed with electronic contacts,which make it support automatic focusing,automatic exposure,etc. It enables you to use all shooting modes of the camera,exposure compensation is required
Specification:
Diameter of the tubes: Approx. 62mm
Tube length: 10mm,16mm
Material: Built in Metal Bayonet & Plastic Body
Compatible camera: All Micro 4/3 mount camera
Such as GH1 GH2 GH3 GH4 GH5 GH5s E-PM1 E-PM2 E-PL1 E-PL2 E-PL3 E-M10 Mark II III etc.
Package included: 1× Extension tube 10mm +16mm set
Johan
Reviewed in Sweden on November 21, 2024
My OM-1 bricked and had to be restarted by removing the battery.
Abhijeet D IND
Reviewed in India on November 16, 2023
A typical Chinese product which is made up of cheap plastic & ultra-worst quality of thin aluminium thread which is good enough to ruin your lens threads. But still, 2 stars as it fulfils your purpose of taking macro autofocus photos. But this comes at the cost of ruining your camera lens threads.Abhijeet Tip: If you are interested in Macro photography, better you also buy a flashlight as photos lose the brightness and you will need external light to bring back that f value.
Dr.Science
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2020
What I like is that these work. They fit snugly and perform exactly as they should with my Olympus micro 4/3 system. They are very lightweight and feel sloppy and flimsy in the hand, as befits a cheap Chinese accessory, but once you've clicked them into place they are snug and tight and fully effective. And they don't cost much.
Sasa76x
Reviewed in Germany on January 30, 2020
Useless really. I tried using it with m100 and m50 with different lenses, no success. It constantly tryin to focus and i didn't get a single picture out of it. Won't buy anything from this company again.
Isaac
Reviewed in Canada on July 3, 2019
Great extension tubes, work exactly as advertised. A bit hard to focus, but that's expected. AF works with all my lenses, even when double stacked. Well worth the $30 for a bit of macro fun!The picture was taken hand held, with 10mm extension tube, Olympus EM1 Mii, Sigma 30mm F1.4
Review guy
Reviewed in Canada on June 13, 2017
The kit lens on my Samsung nx500 is not very good at macro shots, so I decided to give extension tubes a try. That way I wasn't buying a whole new lens because of one shortcoming. I was very pleased with the results! Nothing crazy but much better than before. Much better! Autofocus still works nicely and aperature is adjustable which is great because if given enough light I like to use a higher aperature to get some extra depth of feild!
GPSanino
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2016
Extension tubes are a cheap way to get into macro photography without spending on expensive 1:1 macro lenses (eg. >600USD 60mm NX macro lens). As any extension tubes, these do not damage the image quality since they have no lenses inside, but they do decrease the light sensitivity and depth of field. Both problems can be resolved by adjusting your aperture and exposure time.These tubes work very well. Initially they connected a little bit hard to my lenses but after using them more they got soft. They feel securely fasten to my NX1. They provide only two sections, 10 and 16mm. The ending result is OK and help getting a closer macro. The effect is lesser than the common 3 tube sets that you can find for other brands (Nikon/Canon) providing 12,20 and 36mm.Perhaps these tubes should have included a third tube around 24mm or if you are ok with the price, buy two sets to achieve a total of 42mm. If you use these tubes with a NX1 body camera, then you may not need the second set of tubes because the camera produces such large images that you can crop without loosing much.The best of these tubes is that they connect all electronics of your lens to your camera. So the lens operates just as usual. This is very useful for Metering and Autofocus, as when taking macro pics at the field (without tripod or out of a controlled environment).My common settings are:1) try to always with a tripod.2) best results with the 45mm prime lens and very good results with the 50-200mm and 18-200mm NX lenses when set at 100mm.3) set to manual focus and the target at two inches (5 to 9cm) from the lens. You are still using the electronics for Metering.4) Manual mode with f16-22 and 15-30 seconds of exposure.5) Adding ring LED-lights the exposure time can be shorterWith these settings I have been able to make great images with long depth of field in one photo, without needing to use focus stacking techniques (stacking several pictures varying the focus distance). If you still want to do focus-stacking, a fast way (without special mounts fro macro) is to profit from the BKT feature of the NX1 camera, setting the menu/photo/drive to "Bracketing Depth" mode (only available on Program or Aperture priority mode). This makes the camera change the depth of field between a set of pictures (you can set the intensity of the effect from 0 to 3). You can stack the pictures in post with Digikam or other software (Hugin etc). It is not exactly the same as changing the focus distance but it produces a diversity of pictures to chose from or stack them into one after some practice.To keep the extension tubes clean inside, I always store them with lens and body caps.I totally recommend to get these tubes.
Walter Lugten
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2016
The aluminum tubes are well milled and are sturdy. They do a great job when you shoot macro, separately or together. One minor problem is that sometimes the connectors don't make contact. In that case you have to "play" with the tube(s) before your camera can communicate with the lens. That's why I deduct one star in my rating.
Manuel Hartung
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2015
only thing not very good working is using both tubes and autofocus - usually only works when at max and min aperture, between you'll have no autofocusi LOVE the great magnification though - excellent - i would buy it again!
Peter T
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2014
very light and compact. does what it's supposed to do, allowing closeup/macro images with a compatible m43 lenses while retaining electrical contacts and automation. auto-focus works but is of limited use in macro work. i found myself setting lens to closest focus distance and rocking back and forth to get the part of image i wanted in focus. however, lens and exposure metadata are retained. you do lose focusing at a distance, but that's the nature of extension tubes and close-up lenses. feels a little "gritty" mounting it on to the camera body and lens, but it's a tight fit with no play. you need to twist the whole thing back a forth a bit to get the pins in the tubes to line up and engage, thereby establishing electrical contact. also found i had to turn the camera off then on again to get the camera to recognize the lens mounted, but once that was done it worked flawlessly. i used both 10mm and 16mm tubes on my 12-35 2.8, but that was too much extension and the lens could not achieve focus. either tube worked fine alone and they both worked together on longer lenses. given that the autofocus is of limited use to me in macro and i don;t need to retain exposure info, i would opt for the manual tubes (more sections, more total extension) that are available for about 1/4 the cost of these. i had so much fun playing with these that i bought the fotodiox manual tubes (3 tubes, 50mm of total extension) for my longer lenses. but for automatic tubes for much less than kenko and other brands... this does the trick.
John McQuitty
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2014
This set of extension tubes works well on all three of my M4/3 cameras. It is well made with no play in the mount, works well in full auto mode on all three of my M4/3 cameras and lenses(4). All automatic lens functions work as they should. So far i'm quite pleased with this set - works fully automatic with all my cameras and lenses, and offers significantly reduced minimum focus distances for macro/close up work. Highly recommended.
J. A. W.
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2014
This is a set of tubes: 10 and 16 mm of extension (can be used together), just what is needed for a macro capability. There is a set of electrical contacts, so that the automatic features of the lens (AF, AE) are retained. And the price is right.Here, however, the good part of the story ends. While the tubes are finished quite nicely, the weight suggests a constructio nf of plastic and aluminum. Still, this would be just fine for casual use. Unfortunately, the bayonet is made so inaccurately that it does not even fit (or get inside) the camera mount. One or more of the petal-like lips may be a bit too wide, I guess.The mechanical coupling between both parts fits, but the locking action has some resistance and unevenness -- a sign of sub-par machining. Therefore I decided not to try to fix the bayonet with a Dremel tool, but just to return it.Too bad, I needed a set of extension tubes, even if a lightweight one.
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