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i have just bought my first macro lens (sigma 70-300mm). I am new to DSLR and recently bought a Canon 1100d, my interest is macro, i spent the past few weeks just learning the camera. For macro, i would get quite close up (4-6 inches) from my subject and shoot.

With the sigma i have to be about a metre from my subject in order to focus.

What i tend to do is spot my target ie spider on a rose by eye and then try to locate it in my viewfinder or lcd. But it takes me ages (with camera mounted on tripod)- being so far from the subject and with the lens not yet focused i find it difficult to find my subject, by the time i have homed in the subject has flown off.

is this how it is or am i missing something?
 
dunerider said:
i have just bought my first macro lens (sigma 70-300mm). I am new to DSLR and recently bought a Canon 1100d, my interest is macro, i spent the past few weeks just learning the camera. For macro, i would get quite close up (4-6 inches) from my subject and shoot.

With the sigma i have to be about a metre from my subject in order to focus.

What i tend to do is spot my target ie spider on a rose by eye and then try to locate it in my viewfinder or lcd. But it takes me ages (with camera mounted on tripod)- being so far from the subject and with the lens not yet focused i find it difficult to find my subject, by the time i have homed in the subject has flown off.

is this how it is or am i missing something?
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Yeah that's kind of how it is ;).

Another problem is that you may be using the AF setting when it can be better to manually focus as close as possible and then to kind of rock back and forwards to get the correct focus.

In fact a tripod in these circumstances can be more of a hindrance than a help (unless you are taking pics indoors)

And a good high mounted flash is also a great help when allied with an aperture of about f22.

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sk66 said:
That's the way it is with that lens...it's not a "true macro."
You could use extension tubes to shorten the minimum focus distance.
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Are you saying with an extension tube i would be closer to the target?
 
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