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I'm trying to decide whether I should purchase a full macro lens, for I often take profile/ silhouette pictures, or if I should purchase a wide lens, for I often do landscape.

Any help?

Canon XSi with an AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 LD Macro 1:2- that is what I have to work with at this point, looking for expansion.
 
What use is a macro facility for taking profiles, unless you are taking the profile of a butterfly?

If your only lens on a crop sensor camera starts at 70mm I would look for something wider, like a 24-70 or even the 17-40 f4L, though I don't like it much.
 
I actually already have that. I was naming the highest lens I had. Sorry. Would an extension tube with a wide lens work? Or is one or the other more appropriate?
 
Work for what? It works for macros and product/food shots, in fact I love it for that, though it's probably better on a short telephoto zoom than a wide angle.
 
I need clarity. Grain shots I suppose. Something that goes past lady bugs and flower pedals.
 
Ah, ok. Your options then are extension tubes where the shorter the focal length the larger the magnification, reversing a lens on to you camera with a reversing ring or coupling a standard prime reversed on to the front of a telephoto zoom, where the magnification will be the telephoto's length divided by the length of the prime - so 200mm coupled to 50mm gives a magnification of 4x on the sensor, 100 with 50 gives 2x, so your 70-300 would offer a range from 1.4x to 6x. It's probably worth trying as the ring will only cost you a few quid.
 
So if I'm working with my 70-300 and using the extension, than I would have no need for the full macro? Or would that give me more for what I need, because if I can get the wide and the extension without worrying about the full than that would be ideal.
 
rootlesstree said:
So if I'm working with my 70-300 and using the extension, than I would have no need for the full macro? Or would that give me more for what I need, because if I can get the wide and the extension without worrying about the full than that would be ideal.
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Im not fully understanding what you're trying to do, and a lot depends on budget, but the cheapest macro option is to add either a Raynox DCR-250 (£45) macro adapter to your zoom, or for better quality a set of extension tubes (Kenko £120). They will both get you very close, although at 1:2 you are already pretty close with that zoom already.

If the 70-300 is the only lens you have, you need to get a standard walkabout zoom. There is lots of choice from the 18-55 IS kit lens which is very good value, up to the terrific EF-S 17-55 2.8.

That will be quite good for landscape and it would be a good idea to see how you get on with that before splashing out on something wider, like the Canon 10-22 or Sigma 10-20.
 
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