I want to go to a genealogy archive and take pictures of documents using available light (no flash). Will I need a macro or is this lens sufficient?
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Hi--Im not a professional but I've used the lens when hiking to get close ups of geological markers, flowers, etc., and it's fine. The images are sharp. I think you'll be OK with this lens.
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I would recommend a 50mm lens that is faster. Say an F1.8 or so. F 3.5 is a bit slow for low light. You can ramp up the ISO sensitivity to compensate, but you increase noise too. The trade off so to speak.
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It would probably do ok with enough light. If you use the camera's flash you will need to play around with the flash settings to reduce the amount of light coming from it or you might get strong reflections and highlights. You might want to consider the Pentax DA 35mm F2.4 AL or DA 50mm F1.8. Neither lens is very expensive (as lens go) but they are very basic and not weather resistant. The DA 50mm is a fast lens and would be my choice for the task you are wanting to use it for.
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No, this is perfect for portraits, unless you have been using a 105mm. Lense is a little bit heavier than if you went with fixed focus, but the 24-70 is just perfect for indoors & the f/2.8 let's you keep you ISO at about 200 & still shoot without flash. WARNING: Don't use lens hood with on-camera flash at less than 45mm. You will get a shadow at the bottom of picture.
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No is the short answer. Look for "macro" lenses or "magnifier" lenses or "microscope" apps or lenses
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Pretty much any camera that advertises "macro focus" (the ability to focus on objects within about an inch of the lens -- necessary if you're selling anything *small*) will be fine these days: All of them have plenty of resolution and perfectly good image quality for eBay/Amazon usages. You'll have no problem finding many cameras <$100 to choose from these days that will work just fine.
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It will do well for portraits and close-up macro photography with enough light. I do like this lens for what it delivers for its price. It does hunt in low-light though, but if you know its application it is fine.
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Hi there, I own this camera since this April and took around 8000 pics since, about half of them in very low light. With this camera, you do not even need to use the flash in 99.9% of the cases. (this is why I chose this camera in the first place) In case it's really dark and you don't have any lightsource, you can use the flash and it is sufficiently strong so your photos will look good. But usually, you really don't need the flash at all. I made perfect shots (photo and video) in dark dimmed pubs as well as beautiful nightshots walking around NYC all without using the flash. But if you insist, it's there, and it's perfectly fine.
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No. Macro is for taking real close-up pictures! None of these are zoom lens.
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With flowers it will work very well, with insects you may want a macro a bit longer. As for quality it is superb, but like all lenses one must use sense. There is no such thing as a one does everything lens.
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I use mine on my D90 and it works great. I purchased it to use as a macro lens so that I could do close ups of flowers and small items. The 2.8 aperture is probably not fast enough for movement in low light. To use it, you would have to crank up the ISO and introduce noise. If you can use flash though it would work if you are close enough to the action. Another possibility might be a 50mm 1.8 and then crop the photo, depending on how close you are to the kids.
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Yes. I just completed shooting many pieces of jewelry for a catalog. The Macro lens was great.
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This is primarily a Macro lens, for shooting tiny things. It would work for northern lights, but there are probably better choices out there, depending on your budget and camera type.
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Manual Focus only. Works better close for Macro shots. Not so much for far away, Infinity setting. Good Luck!
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I use this item as part of my macro kit because I don't want to pay for or carry around a macro lens. Having said that, I'm sure that there macro lenses out there that provide better magnification and possibly better image quality depending on the merit of whatever lens you use the 500D on. If you put this on a high quality lens (Canon L glass, zeiss, etc.) you'll be thrilled with the result, put it on an inexpensive "kit" lens and you might not be so happy. On a moderately good lens it should do well for jewelry photography.
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I personally love this lens. But then, I am not trying to photograph bugs with it. My photos are perfect and have caught some great photos of hummingbirds I was shooting recently. I have a Canon T3. It does Macro.
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I only used it for macro photography in terms of stills. But for me it was not awkward. I Don't own a follow focus system, so I'm constantly turning the focus ring by hand. I like the control, though I would suggest always using the magnification function in your camera to focus perfectly.
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Yes this will work. However, you will need either the ring flash or the twin flashes. The 100mm macro is fairly standard for dental intraoral photography.
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run ur camera in manual mode only..........the link between ur camera and ur actual lens is broken.......the macro extension tubes which maintain this link are 10 times costlier.............if u know how to use manual settings and know how to do macro photography basics.....it will work just fine........