Kaye Made me Jealous...

...So I had to go buy this little beauty:



What the hell is it, you say? It's the weirdest lens I've ever seen. I went shopping for macro lenses, only to discover that most Canon lenses that come with macros overlap the lenses I already have: There's a 50mm with macro, but I already have the awesome 50mm 1.4, which kicks ass. I like it, anyways. I took this shot with it, among others:



Tamron and Canon both make excellent 90 and 100 mm lenses with macros, but I already have the Canon 24-105, which is excellent. Then Canon and Tamron also both make excellent 180 mm lenses, but they cost $700 and $1200 respectively. Jeez.



A bit more reading on Steve's Digicams, The Digital Picture, Photo.net, and of course Amazon's comments, I discovered the 500D and 250D "lenses," which look just like filters. The D stands for the fact that they are actually (allegedly) two lenses fused together -- the single lens versions of these filters seem to create chromatic aberrations.

Here's a pic someone on flickr took with this puppy.


Thanks to Ellipses3 for the use of the photo.

Based on all the online evidence, it looks like the way to go. It will be here in five to nine days, so we'll see.