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Just one question...

May 3 2006 at 3:27 AM
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Response to Macro lenses

This matter regarding macro lenses is very interesting, but creates lots of doubts! At least to me...

I own a Nikon D50 and I am seriously considering buying an AF-S VR 105 f/2.8 G IF-ED macro lenses.

Off course my problem is that the only thing that I will use it is for photographing models, so how to be sure that the high investment will really worth it??

Well, you said that you could take a photo 3 feet away and still capture the head of a 1/35 figure, did I understand it correctly? Because this looks like a zoom...

I thought that the macro lenses allows you to take very close pictures and this was the main reason for being able to achieve the 1:1 ratio, meaning that you could easily have a 1 cm part filling the all image. Is this correct?

The specification of the above mentioned lens says "1:1 of maximum reproduction ratio and up to 31cm closest focusing distance".

I don�t know if this means that one can only focus to a minimum distance of 31cm (which of course does not make sense!) or that one could only use this lens up to a maximum distance of 31cm?? (This will not be useful to take any kind of portraits for example).

With a macro lens you should be able to focus at 1cm or less distance from the subject; if not how the hell you could put a 1cm subject in the complete image without a zoom?

Well these are just my very non-educated thoughts...

Regards,
Folgado

 
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  1. Re: Just one question... - Marcel Jussen on May 5, 11:02 AM
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