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.........................................................the effin thing eventually arrived. I had a dick about with it tonight.
First of all the Yongnuo Ring Flash I've got doesn't come with a 62mm adapter so these were taken with the flash rattling loose over the barrel of the lens, nae the best
. I have since bastardised 2 adapters, glued them together and now have a working set up for attaching the Ring Flash to the lens.
The lens seem pretty well constructed, it's solid, quite heavy but feels the part and not plasticy in any way.
The fact it doesn't have AF and only manual f/stop operation, I don't find an issue in fact I prefer that when shooting Macro. I don't know if it's a sharp as the MPE-65, I'll need to do more testing but it seems more than acceptable IQ wise. Take note tho as other folk have noticed it does eat light at narrower f/stops and higher magnification but again that's something I'll get used to with practice and a bit of Heath Robinson stuff to get a suitable focus light.
The working distances are as I expected and am used to with the MPE-65.
All in all it appears it'll do the job reasonably well.
Here's some of the test shots. I've processed them the same way as I'd do with the MPE-65. The last one, the wee allen screw, is 3mm across and was taken at x2 full mag and I think it's a reasonable example of the detail the lens is capable of achieving.
For £250, at about a third of the price of the MPE-65, it's not a bad investment. OK, it doesn't have the x5 mag of that lens, which I still consider the crem dela crem of (Canon) Macro lenses but if you don't need x5 but need/would like a bit more than the usual 1:1 Macro lenses, then you could do worse.
First of all the Yongnuo Ring Flash I've got doesn't come with a 62mm adapter so these were taken with the flash rattling loose over the barrel of the lens, nae the best
. I have since bastardised 2 adapters, glued them together and now have a working set up for attaching the Ring Flash to the lens.The lens seem pretty well constructed, it's solid, quite heavy but feels the part and not plasticy in any way.
The fact it doesn't have AF and only manual f/stop operation, I don't find an issue in fact I prefer that when shooting Macro. I don't know if it's a sharp as the MPE-65, I'll need to do more testing but it seems more than acceptable IQ wise. Take note tho as other folk have noticed it does eat light at narrower f/stops and higher magnification but again that's something I'll get used to with practice and a bit of Heath Robinson stuff to get a suitable focus light.
The working distances are as I expected and am used to with the MPE-65.
All in all it appears it'll do the job reasonably well.
Here's some of the test shots. I've processed them the same way as I'd do with the MPE-65. The last one, the wee allen screw, is 3mm across and was taken at x2 full mag and I think it's a reasonable example of the detail the lens is capable of achieving.
For £250, at about a third of the price of the MPE-65, it's not a bad investment. OK, it doesn't have the x5 mag of that lens, which I still consider the crem dela crem of (Canon) Macro lenses but if you don't need x5 but need/would like a bit more than the usual 1:1 Macro lenses, then you could do worse.
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