Good reef macro lens for Rebel EOS cameras?

[Aquattro]

To heck with the lens, where can someone buy white balance

[hippo!]

have both canon 100 and a sigma, the sigma is a good choice to save some bucks (I think it was about a 400 or so difference between my two).

[PoonTang]

So what kind of a lens would you need to take close ups like that of corals that are near the back of say a 24" tank?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by PoonTang

So what kind of a lens would you need to take close ups like that of corals that are near the back of say a 24" tank?

Darren, those would be the expensive ones

[imisky]

Originally Posted by PoonTang

So what kind of a lens would you need to take close ups like that of corals that are near the back of say a 24" tank?

any of the 100mm range macros will be able to do roughly 1:2 or 1:3 ratio of macro if you want 1:1 at 24" you'll be looking at the 150mm+ range

the lens i use for all my macro shots is the sigma 150mm f2.8 which is a $1000+ lens. With the new canon 100mm f2.8 "L" lens out the older 100mm f2.8 non L is a steal for performance you can generally find them at roughly $400-500

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by imisky

any of the 100mm range macros will be able to do roughly 1:2 or 1:3 ratio of macro if you want 1:1 at 24" you'll be looking at the 150mm+ range

the lens i use for all my macro shots is the sigma 150mm f2.8 which is a $1000+ lens. With the new canon 100mm f2.8 "L" lens out the older 100mm f2.8 non L is a steal for performance you can generally find them at roughly $400-500

I also have the 150mm 2.8 Sigma which I got for around $700 on sale. It does 1:1 at around 18".

[MarkoD]

im gonna have to say 100mm f2.8 and get wireless speedlight triggers.

here are some of my shots with that lens

[DisneyCoralReef]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

im gonna have to say 100mm f2.8 and get wireless speedlight triggers.

here are some of my shots with that lens

I don't even know what words to use to describe these photos. I do sports, equine photography as a side hobby-I seriously need to learn from you.

[MarkoD]

thanks

3 words : Off Camera Flash

oh and manual mode

[Jeff000]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

thanks

3 words : Off Camera Flash

oh and manual mode

My only problem with using a strobe or speed light is I lose the fluorescing colors I get from the attinics in my lighting. Now mind you the colors I do get are far more true, but not really what is expected to be seen in a tank. For clown fish this is less of an issue then say a hammer coral or zoa's or something.

In my tank with all my lights turned up I can already shoot at 1/250 shutter at f3.2 ISO 800, So I am shooting at most peoples max sync speed already.

I am not sure what camera you are using, but I am going to assume FF as your profiles that google gave me said you love natural light, so you should be able to get some great high iso shots too.
But then you have high speed sync too, which is fun to play with, but I have not really found a place for it in what I shoot.