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Canon 500D
I sold the 100mm macro but I want to have some macro fun back! I tried a
Canon EF25II extension tube, but it's awfully hard to use and pretty expensive for essentially just air. Well, I would like to know how difficult to the 500D on 300/4 and optional 1.4x tele or possibly 24-105/4 and whether I should just save up for the 100mm again? |
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Canon 500D
"l e o" wrote in message
... I sold the 100mm macro but I want to have some macro fun back! I tried a Canon EF25II extension tube, but it's awfully hard to use and pretty expensive for essentially just air. Well, I would like to know how difficult to the 500D on 300/4 and optional 1.4x tele or possibly 24-105/4 and whether I should just save up for the 100mm again? With a little ingenuity you can build your own extension tube out of PVC, an old mount and some glue. -- Mark Mostly photography... http://www.marklauter.com |
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Canon 500D
I'd save for the macro, Sigma and Tamron have 100mm (Tamron is a 90mm)
that are highly rated. The Canon is probably better but not by much. Here's the problem; For your 300mm you'd have to have an extension of 300mm or 12 inches to reach 1:1, 6 inches to reach 1:2. I wouldn't do this on a heavy lens with glued PVC tubing, the problem with that is that the interior of the barrell has to be matte black or you get all sorts of flare. For the zoom, it take proper lens design to get a zoom lens into the macro range 1:3 mag or larger. Nikon is the only company selling a real macro zoom for this reason (the 70-180 f4.5-5.6 lens about $800). Some zooms say they are macro, but performance says otherwise. If you can affords it get the Canon 100 macro, if you want one before that the Sigma or Tamron are decent ( I don't say this about Sigma lenses very often). Tom |
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Canon 500D
l e o wrote:
I sold the 100mm macro but I want to have some macro fun back! I tried a Canon EF25II extension tube, but it's awfully hard to use and pretty expensive for essentially just air. Well, I would like to know how difficult to the 500D on 300/4 and optional 1.4x tele or possibly 24-105/4 and whether I should just save up for the 100mm again? I use the 500D closeup lens on a 70-200 and with 2x TC and it's pretty neat. Closeups at that length are more likely skittish bugs & such, a 'real' macro will give better results if you don't need that working distance. |
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