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Hello all
I wonder if anyone can give me a little help, I would like to try my hand at macro photography and I wondered what lens to buy.I have around £700=00 to spend and I want to buy a good lens and I use Canon equipment.Can anyone help me.
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Stephen:)
 
To get the best from macro you'll need some flash as well as you'll be shooting small apertures to get maximum DOF, Sigma 150mm is excellent lens with good working distance but its heavy and difficult to hand hold - but you soon get used to it, Canon 100mm is a very good lens and can be had for around £300 used on here, OS version is more expensive and the OS is not much use at 1:1, Sigma 105mm & Tamron 90mm have good IQ but don't have internal focusing and the working distance on the 90mm is fairly small. or go the whole distance and get an MP-65mm & MT24-EX but that combo will probably be out of your budget.
 
postcardcv said:
Have a look at the Canon 100 f2.8 IS macro, I reckon it is the best macro lens available and you should be able to pick up a secondhand one for well under you budget.
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I think MP-E65 and 'best macro lens available' go together in the same sentence ;)

Personally after using the Canon 100mm IS and the Siggy 150mm OS i think the siggy just edges it on IQ and Bokeh :)
 
Siggy 150mm f2.8 is good but as said above it's big and heavy.

It depends what you want to shoot and how but a good tripod and head and lighing will be important, if you want to go that way.
 
Thank's for your reply's guy's, good luck with what ever you are doing.
 
Stephen, if you are anywhere near lincoln in the near future and want to have a try with a Canon 100 f2.8 L macro and Sigma EM-140 ringflash then PM me and arrange a visit, you're welcome to come and I'm at home most days. I've had the 100 just over a year now and I love it. I use it on my 5D3 and 7D and it still amazes me with what I can get.

I did have an MP-E65 for a short while. I got it about a year ago for a christmas present but had a bad accident which prevents me moving in close enough to the target. I got a few indoor shots and very few outdoor shots before I sold it earlier this year. Very good, but you have to be mobile enough, and will give you the closest shots possible.

I got this recently with the 5D3, 100 L, f9, ISO 320 and 1/10sec handheld and natural lighting and is SOOC with no PP apart from a crop.
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