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tubular bells
Extension tubes are an acceptable way of getting macro if the budget is too tight. Beware that you will be extremely restricted on magnification and shooting distance. You will lose lens speed. Second hand older manual focus lenses eg 55 f/2.8 go pretty cheaply -about $60and give you quality image and can be used even better with the tubes. A zoom on extension tubes may well be way too dim to focus. If you have a static subject, reversing the lens with or without the extensionn tube/s will give higher quality image as well as higher magnification. The more wide angle, the higher the magnification. Totally manual operation,tripod only, but you could use any brand lens . Reversing rings are cheap. Old Minolta lenses in particular are high quality and cheap.
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