Peter wrote:


I just looked it up and Canon does indeed make real macro lenses
with the inscription "Canon Macro Photo Lens." If those are
the lenses under "macro" in the catalogue then I apologize,
they are _real_ macro lenses.

Nikon is unusual in that they reserve the word "macro" for their
true macro lenses. Nikon uses "Micro-Nikkor" for their lenses
designed for normal close-up work.

Canon uses "macro" on both their real macro lenses and their
not-quite macro lenses. The words "macro photo lens" seem to
be reserved for their true macro lenses.

Peter.
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