About a month ago I bought one of those Vivitar high def macro converters for 8.00 on line. I figured what the heck. Today I remembered I had it so I put it on my 18-55 lenses and gave it a try. The results weren't bad. Bright lighting is a must with this. The lights on my photo box barely cut it. This picture was taken with the lenses about 2" away from the knife. Slight crop and post processing.