Sam I've seen this tamron lense for £130. 70mm-300mm telephoto but has a macro setting. Only 1:2 though. What do you think?

I've got a Sigma 70-300mm and its pretty awesome, but in my opinion its not the most practical lens if your not shooting long distance. So stuff like the food stuff you've shot, you wont be able to get close to it, you'd have to shoot from pretty far back.

If you've got the money get the Canon 50mm f1.8 - You wont regret it.

Thats a really fast aperture. Reading it says it takes photos as close to what the human eye would see.

This is about a sigma 70-300mm lens with 1:2 macro


Telephoto zoom lens with excellent cost performance and optimised for use with digital SLR cameras.
Capable of macro photography, this lens has a 1:2 maximum close-up magnification at the 300 mm focal length. It’s the ideal high performance lens for portraits, sports photography, nature photography, and other types of photography that frequently use the telephoto range.
SLD (Special Low Dispersion) glass We used SLD (Special Low Dispersion) glass in this lens for excellent correction of chromatic aberration. This also corrects for fluctuation of aberration due to focusing. The new multi layer lens coating reduces flare and ghosting, a common problem with digital cameras and also creates an optimum colour balance.
Macro shooting with maximum magnification 1:2
The minimum focusing distance is 1.5 m/59 inches at all zoom settings. It also has a switch for changeover to macro photography at focal lengths between 200mm and 300mm with a maximum close-up magnification from 1:2.9 to 1:2.

I've not been able to take photos that close with my 70-300mm but its still a good buy, whats the aperture on the lens your looking at? Probably about 4/5 right? What you looking to photograph with it?

Proper macro... thinking about this sam

http://www.camerabox.co.uk/productDA1.asp?ProductName=Canon-50mm-EF-F2.5-Macro-&ProductID=11013

Looks great mate, awesome aperture too, will get plenty of light in... I say purchase !

Fucksake on pc world they have it for £97.97... out of stock and just called them... not getting it in again!

I love my Macro stuff a lil bit too much. These were taken about an hour ago. Enjoy.






















Sam.

nice pics sam, they make you realise how strangely shaped and hairy those animals really are.

that fly is fucking beauitful mate, looks like its made of metal with those colours !

did you edit that spider? no way the purple on it is real?