Home > Consumer Reviews > Opteka 58mm 10x HD² Professional Macro Lens for Olympus EVOLT E-520, E-510, E-420, E-410, & E-3 Digital SLR Cameras

This macro lens performs at the level of its price. It isn't a $500. macro lens. It is a screw-on adapter that magnifies the image of your current lens. There may be vignetting in the corners of your image depending on the magnification. This can easily be cropped out. Focus is a bit tricky due to the shallow depth of field. These points may seem negative but they are an honest review. I can't afford a $500. macro so this is an excellent bargain for me. I've used these with film cameras and now with my DSLR. For insects, flowers, and small details, you can't beat it.

I don't know what the others liked about this "professional macro lens", but i found this item a real CRAP. From the beginning it looked weird because the paper that comes inside the box said something like "discontinued", so i was a bit skeptic and trying it finally confirmed my doubts: IT'S A CRAP; and an expensive one. You can only use this lens if your camera is on a tripod; forget about hunting insects with your camera, or following them around because you won't be able to focus unless you're a rock holding a camera, and the insect is a close friend of you to let you get as as close as 5 mm from it. So this is a lens just for studio macro, not in-field macro. May be that's why they say is a "professional" lens, because you can only use it in a studio with very special conditions.
Other thing is you should not use it with a super zoom lens, it just do a bit of job with a wide angle lens, and that's the way to avoid the vignetting you get from using a super zoom lens. I shoot Olympus so i had to use it with the 14-42 mm lens, with the 40-150 mm was impossible to get any result.
So, if you don't have enough money to buy a real macro lens, like me :), i think it would be better to buy one of those sets that have like three or four close up lenses of different X measures, or get a magnifier and place it in front of your super zoom lens and it would do a better job.

Te item came very fast, it seams to be of good quality, solid with no scratches and no defects. Great buy for the money. It also came with a nice pouch for the lens.

You just can't beat the price. This is a wonderful lens, easy to attach and easy to use. The results are just amazing. I just love it. You can't go wrong with this lens.

this lens was exactly what i was looking for, and you just can't beat that price. Took me a bit to get used to but so far I am very pleased.