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Photos and experience with the 105mm OS macro lens

Started Sep 9, 2021 | Discussions thread
danski0224 Senior Member • Posts: 1,465
Re: Photos and experience with the 105mm OS macro lens

Peter Slovakia wrote:

Yes, I'm interested in close-up photos, that's exactly what I'll use this lens for often, but also for the landscape. Similar to a 70 mm lens. 70mm lens more for macro.

On these lenses, I like that they have a flat windshield, so they are sharp from one corner to the other. That's a big plus. Edges / corners will never be soft or blurred. I don't like blurred corners

Does anyone else have photos with a 105mm macro OS lens?
Please publish.

The longer macro lenses allow you to get a little further away, which can be helpful.

As I understand it, due to the extending design, the 70mm macro (old one and Art) and the 105mm (old one) both retain more of their focal length as one approaches 1:1 in comparison to an "inner focusing" (non-extending) macro lens. The newer EX series 105, 150 and 180mm macro lenses are all inner focusing.

I like the 70 because it is very light, but at 1:1, the lens is usually quite close to the subject.

The 150 is a nice compromise between the heavy 180 and the sometimes not long enough 105 that's also missing the tripod collar.

There's also the 1.4x teleconverter.

Sigma still lacks extension tubes...

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