Macro Shoots

Rooky007 · 9 Apr 2007 at 09:59

I am borrowing a canon 50mm f2.5 macro lens of someone I know.. But which metering mode am i suppose to use for macro shoots?

Also i have had a play and some shoots are great.. If I am please with this lens shall i get a 50mm Macro lens or do you advise 100mm?

I have always wanted a macro lens as I like doing shoots of insects and fine details..

As some of you know I been looking into getting other lens but have decided not to now. I am making do with my 17 - 40 L Lens and my tamron 70 - 300 Lens. But love to get a macro lens next... Then I will learn and take practice of everything and work out what lens i really need to upgrade to.

SDK^ · 9 Apr 2007 at 10:14

The Canon 50mm F2.5 Macro lens is only half life size.
The Canon 100mm, Sigma 105mm and Tamron 90mm lenses are all life size (1:1) and worth checking out.

I would recommend the Canon 100mm lens because it doesn't extend during focusing and manual focus is also easier to use.

Metering settings depend on your subject and lighting conditions. I use manual mode so the metering mode doesn’t matter but I would tend to use Partial as sometimes strong backlighting can cause underexposure of your main subject.

Rooky007 · 9 Apr 2007 at 10:21

SDK^ said:
The Canon 50mm F2.5 Macro lens is only half life size.
The Canon 100mm, Sigma 105mm and Tamron 90mm lenses are all life size (1:1) and worth checking out.

I would recommend the Canon 100mm lens because it doesn't extend during focusing and manual focus is also easier to use.

Metering settings depend on your subject and lighting conditions. I use manual mode so the metering mode doesn’t matter but I would tend to use Partial as sometimes strong backlighting can cause underexposure of your main subject.

Cheers for the info... the 50mm does extend when focus so the 100mm doesnt then? that even better

Also how much bigger is the 100mm lens than the 50mm

SDK^ · 9 Apr 2007 at 10:31

Left to right : Sigma, Tamron and Canon lenses fully extended.