macro lens

[keatsy]

Have you thought about something like the Raynox 250?

It attaches to the front of your existing lenses and will give you a chance to see if macro is really for you. It costs less than £40 and will give you a chance to practice your technique for shooting macro. There is a whole thread of macro pictures with the Raynox somewhere in the macro section.

I've noticed you're talking about the manual focussing aspect of the lenses, but at 1:1 you don't actually focus, but move the camera back and forward to get the subject in focus. This is actually a movement of mm and therein lies the macro technique which makes it so hard to get the images you see on this forum.

HTH

thanks for this post i will have a look when i wake up later, does this just attach to the kit lens?

 

[Bigvin]

Yeah, it attaches to any lens that has a 52-67mm filter size. I bought one myself before I got my macro lens to make sure I'd stick with macro photography.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/RAYNOX-RADC...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280824479&sr=8-1

 

[lolism]

Lee, have you tried the raynox on your macro lens?

 

[keatsy]

Yeah, it attaches to any lens that has a 52-67mm filter size. I bought one myself before I got my macro lens to make sure I'd stick with macro photography.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/RAYNOX-RADC...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280824479&sr=8-1

right. so it would attach to a tamron 70-300mm and a nikon 18-55 mm kit lens?

 

[Bigvin]

right. so it would attach to a tamron 70-300mm and a nikon 18-55 mm kit lens?

That's the exact lenses that I had mine attached to mate.

If I have some time later i'll try and hunt out some pictures from my portable HD.

 

[Woodsy]

I would then look at the tameron 90mm macro, Highly regarded lens, and should be in budget.

TBH

 

[Bigvin]

Just a couple of quick pics i've just taken of a dead fly on a needle.

Afraid I can't get to my HD.

No.1 Tamron 70-300mm with Raynox set at 70mm

No.2 Tamron 90mm Macro lens with Raynox

No.3 Tamron 70-300mm with Raynox set at 300mm.

 

[chazza]

sigma 180mm APO macro HSM ............... great lens

 

[Bigvin]

Just to add, the fly was about 5mm in size and the higher the focal length the greater your working distance. All pictures straight from camera.

The 70mm gave me a working distance of only a few cm's, the 90mm gave me a working distance of 10cm and at 300mm I had a working distance of about 17cm although if you're not using a tripod it's damn near impossible to get a decent sharp image.

With the Raynox it gives a greater magnification depending on focal length as you might have guessed.