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What are you thoughts for the best Macro lens for a canon. One that will focus real close and at a reasonable cost.
 
You might be better to define 'reasonable cost' as it's a term that can mean two completely different values to two different people!
 
I'd be looking to spend no more than £1000, but I would like it to be Canon. I'd like the 500mm Canon do but I would need a divorce first ha ha
 
The 500mm isn't a macro lens. Not by a long way...

What are you trying to photograph?

If it is definitely macro look no further than the 100mm L macro

Or there is the 300mm F4 L. Nice telephoto lens which also has enough magnification to get close enough to do a good job on butterflies/dragonflies and the likes.
 
Yeah I know the 500mm isn't a macro I'm looking at getting the sigma 50-500mm just saying I'd like the Canon 500mm but it's for to expensive for me. Yes I'm also after a good Macro lens. At the mo I do sports and portrait photography but want to try wildlife. Red Kites with a 500mm and Flowers/ insects with the macro.
 
Don't macro lenses sometimes have less than lightening fast AF? That's been my experience but I could just be unlucky :)

The reason I mention this is that macro lenses I've used have been ok for macro as normally I use MF for that anyway and ok for stationary targets but pretty much a PITA if you want to AF on anything moving reasonably fast, like BIF.

Personally I'd split "macro" into a category all its own and live with any AF speed limitations and get something else for anything likely to move.
 
I've got the Canon 100mm f2.8 L macro and it's fantastic. Not only for macro but for portraits as well. Most of the time I use MF for macro, although on my 5D3 the AF is fast enough for most things.

The lens can be got at www.panamoz.com for a very good price http://panamoz.com/index.php/lens/canon/canon-ef-100mm-f-2-8l-is-usm-lens.html although I got mine at London Camera Exchange for over £700 last year. Panamoz also do the Sigma 50-500 OS for £886 with a 3 year warranty.

They are imports, but you have to decide if you want to save £'s by sending them back to Panamoz IF the worst happens. The 2 lenses at Jessops would cost £2070 and at Panamoz would cost £1482 including p&p and 3 year warranties on both saving you £588.

This is a Jpeg SOOC and heavily cropped with my 100 L and 550D, f5.6, 1/125sec and ISO 400, this is one of my early shots but it'll give you an idea. On the full sized photo the detail is much clearer too.
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I've got the Canon 100mm f2.8 L macro and it's fantastic. Not only for macro but for portraits as well. Most of the time I use MF for macro, although on my 5D3 the AF is fast enough for most things.

The lens can be got at www.panamoz.com for a very good price http://panamoz.com/index.php/lens/canon/canon-ef-100mm-f-2-8l-is-usm-lens.html although I got mine at London Camera Exchange for over £700 last year. Panamoz also do the Sigma 50-500 OS for £886 with a 3 year warranty.

They are imports, but you have to decide if you want to save £'s by sending them back to Panamoz IF the worst happens. The 2 lenses at Jessops would cost £2070 and at Panamoz would cost £1482 including p&p and 3 year warranties on both saving you £588.

This is a Jpeg SOOC and heavily cropped with my 100 L and 550D, f5.6, 1/125sec and ISO 400, this is one of my early shots but it'll give you an idea. On the full sized photo the detail is much clearer too.
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Surely they can't sell it that cheap? Have you purchased anything from there before?
 
Myself and lots of other people on this forum have bought from panamoz.
 
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