Re: 100mm with Raynox DCR vs MP-E 65mm
PhasmatosOculus wrote:
Hi all,
Body I am using is an R7
Currently have a Canon 100mm f/2.8 USM lens with Raynox DCR-250 for my macro.
I can handheld stack (especially as I use a flash to "freeze" the action) and get relatively close to insects and with the Raynox, I adjust focus/magnification via the ring manually.
I am considering a Canon MP-E 65mm 5x Macro lens - aware it is manual only. Also aware that I can go from 1:1 to 5:1 and move back and forwards for focusing.
Does anyone have experience with the latter, handheld?
If I set the MP-E to the same sort of mag produced by the former setup, will handheld be just as possible?
I am just wondering if it was upgrading to the MP-E 65mm lens (and sell on the Canon 100mm as I only use it purely for macro) as I may want the additional magnification which would be easy by a turn of the lens.
And if there are any clever people who can calculate working distances for both setups, I'd greatly appreciate that too.
I do not use Canon, however, I just read somewhere else that:
You CAN use the 100 Macro F2.8 with the Canon 1.4X teleconverter... I do it all the time. However, you have to insert an extension tube (the 12 mm one will do) between lens and extender to keep the extended front element of the extender from crunching on the rear of the lens. As long as you don't want to focus to infinity --and I gather you don't -- it works just fine. Make sure you don't stop down too much or you'll run into diffraction issues.
The reason I bring this up is this is what I do with the Olympus 60mm macro lens. I use their 2x teleconverter with it and use a 16mm extension tube in between the teleconverter and 60mm lens acting as a coupler to attach them together, Autofocus won't work, but focus bracketing does. I even use that setup with a Raynox macro filter to get anywhere from 5x to 9x magnification depending on the Raynox used. So maybe see if that's an option for your Canon setup??