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Check out this picture. What does it look like to you? If you guessed ballpoint pen, you’re correct. You win absolutely nothing because it wasn’t that difficult of a question to begin with and I’m not writing about a contest. However, if you’re into photography and want to be able to take macro photographs like the one shown above, there’s no need to pour your life savings into your camera just to do it.

Photocritic.org posted this awesomely creative approach of lengthening the 50mm lens of the Canon 20D by means of a Pringles bottle.  With the mod, the user is able to take all kinds of zoomed in photos of everyday things.  I wonder what Sarah Palin’s face really looks like, up close and personal. Come to think of it, I’m better off not knowing.

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DSLR’s can be tricky when you’re trying to get those ultra-tight macro shots, especially without a detachable viewfinder, since your body has the tendancy to cast a shadow on your subject. If you don’t have the right lenses, you might as well be using a point and shoot. While a wide assortment of point and shoots take macro shots pretty well on their own, the Marumi LED Macro Ring allows you to shine a little light on your super small shots.

With DSLR’s, the trouble with having the wrong lens is that you can’t focus properly without a special flash to brighten up the macro subject. This LED Macro Ring snaps right on to your tripod and camera, shining 8 LED’s to illuminate the lenses sensor. It’s a pretty cool (if not slightly overpriced) tool for $126. — Andrew Dobrow

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Keyboards take the most physical abuse from us gamers. The constant pounding during games, then followed by the unnecessary slam when a damn n00b gets lucky with a sniper rifle. Your keyboard is what can make all the difference when you need to punch out those complex key combos to blow everyone up.

The Tarantula gamers keyboard takes this into account with its 10 dedicated macro keys to simplify gaming. Just in case you play multiple games religiously, it has a 32kb memory to store the 5 different profiles in the hardware itself. Just in case 5 isn’t enough, you can install the software on your PC to access up to 100 other profiles. Quick access is the name of the game here.

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