Leon Altoff wrote: > Hi all > > I have a friend who has a Canon 300D and I would like to try to help him > improve his macro photos of really small objects - down to approximately > 3mm in length. > > He currently has a Canon 100 mm f2.8 macro and a Canon ring flash. The > problem is that the subject - generally live marine animals in about 1cm > of water - in the resulting images is not large enough to blow up to a > usable size. > > I'm willing to take Canon specific suggestions as well as general macro > suggestions, but I don't know what is available for Canons in terms of > macro equipment, and it needs to work with his ring flash. I'll even > accept the address of another forum dealing with Canon macro photography > (Is there one?) or suggestion from Cotty on how to graft good Pentax > optics on to the Canon body. > > All help from those who tread the dark path (and I know you are out > there) will be greatfully accepted. >
you can always reverse-mount a 50mm on the 100mm to get ~2x. That's the cheapest way to go. The 65mm 1x-5x is a bit pricey at ~US$800. -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
