Good reef macro lens for Rebel EOS cameras?

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by sweet ride

grab the canon 100mm macro. You cant go wrong with that lens.

here is a link to a few pictures I've taken.

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=69614

guessed you missed the "not wanting to spend to much" part it is a sweet lense but at 1000.00 plus or 600 on e-bay I think it isn';t what he is looking for.

Adam, I have had my eos for a while no and still have no bought any other lense for it as while ther world of DLSR is great, the price of the lense is not.

what I will sugest is you go into a camera shop and look for 58mm closeup lense's they should run about 15.00 to 30.00 bucks each and range from +2 to +10. with these you don't get realy close they just kinda zoom the subject for ya. these are what I used when I took most of my pictures years ago with my fuji. I still have a tone of filters but my fuji is a 52mm mount where our cannons are a 58mm mount.

the 600 to 1000 buck macro lense does do a better job but for internet posting and normal pictures you won't notice the difference.

Steve

[Jeff000]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

guessed you missed the "not wanting to spend to much" part it is a sweet lense but at 1000.00 plus or 600 on e-bay I think it isn';t what he is looking for.

Adam, I have had my eos for a while no and still have no bought any other lense for it as while ther world of DLSR is great, the price of the lense is not.

Not spending much is all relative. I wouldn't buy a used lens without personal inspection and use on my camera for testing first.

Look at sigma 50mm F2.8. At around 400 bucks brand new its a great buy and a great lens for lots of things too. And being a FF lens it will be more like 80mm which is a great focal length.

[Nebthet]

For the Canon camera, I would suggest the same as sweet ride, to go with the 100mm f2.8 usm macro lense.
I bought mine used off of ebay for $400 shipping included and I am super happy with it.
I don't have near the photography skills as sweet ride, but the type of shots you can take with it are just amazing.
Here are a few of mine.








The little 58mm screw on macro lenses +2 - +10 work more like a magnifying glass and while you can get a little close up, you don't get nearly the depth of field nor the clarity a true macro lense gives you. I tried them. You can get them for around $15 on ebay.

I have also heard great things about the sigma 150mm f2.8 macro lense though I have never used it.

Also might I suggest when you do get a good macro lense, to get a tripod and a remote shutter as this will greatly reduce camera shake making your pictures much sharper.

[sphelps]

I would look for a used 100mm or 65mm macro to save money. Any macro lens will produce similar results provided you can get close enough for the 1:1 focusing distance. The lower the mm the closer you'll have get to the subject.

[sweet ride]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

guessed you missed the "not wanting to spend to much" part it is a sweet lense but at 1000.00 plus or 600 on e-bay I think it isn';t what he is looking for.

I was just replying to the question. As always if you wanted to get a lens and would like to get the most out of it and your tank the I would stick with the Canon 100mm macro, Sigma macro lens per the other post is definitely comparable. At the end of the day you can always use the lit lens.

Here are a few pics taken with 100mm macro





and a few pics taken with the kit lens.

[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