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My personal macro and tele lens comparison

Started Jul 24, 2013 | Discussions thread
jalywol
jalywol Forum Pro • Posts: 12,301
Re: My personal macro and tele lens comparison

Anders W wrote:

You are welcome. Glad to hear the grip helps. The appreciation is mutual. I have followed your earlier test reports with interest and your macro report prompted me to do what I should already have done quite a while ago: Test more systematically how my prospective macro solutions actually work (and not ). As I said, I still have some testing to do, but so far my results are entirely in line with yours. In brief, my preliminary findings are as follows:

75 and close-up lens: No good.

75 and extension tubes: No good.

40-150 and close-up lens: Pretty good

40-150 and extension tubes: Pretty good

100-300 and close-up lens: No good

100-300 and extension tubes: Pretty good

This mirrors my experience.  I have had the most fun (and best results) using the extension tubes on the 100-300mm, with the long end of the 14-140 coming in a close second (40-150 is pretty good too, but I prefer the OIS of the Panasonic lenses over the not great IBIS of the EPM2).

If you look at my gallery, most of the flower and insect shots from the beginning of this May were taken with the extension tubes on the 100-300 (and a few on the other two lenses).  You should be able to see what I have coaxed out of the combo....and it's really a lot of fun to use.

-J

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