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Photos and experience with the 105mm OS macro lens

Started Sep 9, 2021 | Discussions thread
mike earussi Veteran Member • Posts: 9,440
Re: Photos and experience with the 105mm OS macro lens

danski0224 wrote:

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...

Just remove the lens element from the 1.4x and you have an extension tube. That's what I do, it's very easy.

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Sigma SD1 Merrill Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG Macro Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC OS HSM Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM | A Sigma 24-35mm F2 DG HSM Art +2 more
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