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Lens comparison for macro work

Started Feb 20, 2022 | Questions thread
Janer_2
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Re: Lens comparison for macro work

ken_in_nh wrote:

You've received lots of interesting advice regarding lenses, macro, technique and so forth. One can study the subject to death, or one can just get out there and start shooting.

Indeed, I'm doing photography for myself and my closest mostly and not the masses per se, so I'm simply trying to expand and explore as much as I can. I am a firm believer of not having to stick to simply one or two different types of photography. Why not explore as many genres as you can and see what you can do. It also brings a lot of diversity as I am able to focus on different kinds of photography all year around.

Put somewhat extremely there's winter and little natural light more or less half the year where I live, great opportunities for astro, auroras and during spring/summer lots of insects and plants to explore with a macro view. Not that one cannot do either at different times of the year, but my point is I try to expand and always have options to explore regardless.

Advice is always welcome and by my account there aren't any stupid questions only bad answers

Lenses and lighting are important, but so is composition, subject matter, approach, intended use (huge gallery prints vs social media posts viewed on a smartphone, for instance) and so forth. Lots of variables.

Anyone who takes any part of the photographic hobby seriously will find that their equipment, technique and approaches evolves with time. I doubt much, for example, that John started out caring as much about lighting as he does now!

Certainly, I've been delving into loads of different things in a relatively short time. Adapting, astro and now more seriously considering macro etc. So I constantly try to evolve and don't want any limitations.

Perhaps the key is to just do something. There is no best choice. (and with lenses, especially used, copy to copy variation makes "best" even more iffy. My best may well not be yours.)

I agree, this is how I work basically. I didn't have any plan for ecxactly what I'd plan to shoot when I posted this. I only decided that I want a macro lens that was also suited for astro (which applies to many of them), and was looking for hands on experiences with the selection I put together. I didn't intend to annoy anyone if that has been the case, but I don't really see how/why it could be tbh.

Just don't forget the most important aspects of this hobby: go have fun. and experiment.

Amen to that!

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