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Looking to get into macro photography with my R7

Started 4 months ago | Discussions thread
jim mij Senior Member • Posts: 1,027
Re: Looking to get into macro photography with my R7

Colin06 wrote:

I made a similar post in the EOS R forum, but I was recommended to make a post here to get more answers. As you know by the title I'm interested in starting macro photography with my R7, but I have a few questions first. My first question is what lens would be good for me? For the RF mount, I see only 1 macro lens that is within my budget of around $500 and that was the RF 85mm f/2. That only has a 0.5x magnification which I don't think would be best for what I plan on shooing (spiders, other insects, fungi, and plants). Are there any good third-party options I could get, and use an ef to rf adapter? My last question is how does an APS-C body perform in macro photography?

Hi, I use an m6ii which has a similar sensor, and I use the efs 60mm macro lens (bought used ), you can search in this forum for some of my examples

you’ll also need a flash

after a few months of using this combo my main requirement is to get closer (next spring when the bug season starts again) so that’s either via the Laowa 2:1 lens or a raynox 250. The latter means af and hence stacking still works

m6ii doesn’t allow stacking and flash, hopefully your r7 does as that would be useful

good luck

Jim

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Canon EOS M6 II Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM Kenko Teleplus Pro 300 AF 1.4x Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
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