90mm would be fine on 35mm film but on a pentax aps-c dslr its too long
----------------- J.C.O'Connell [email protected] ----------------- -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Walters Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 11:41 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Advice on Selection of Macro Lens Quoting "J.C. O'Connell" <[email protected]>: > warning - 100mm is best suited for very small items like insects or coins. > its too long for larger items like general flowers and plants. Also, I > would recommend manual focus lenses as manual focus seems to work best > with macro and af lenses dont do mf that well. That's not my experience. I find my 90mm macro just about perfect for wildflower photography and for many years in the 70s and 80s that was about the only photography I did. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > ----------------- > J.C.O'Connell > [email protected] > ----------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel J. Matyola > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 9:16 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Advice on Selection of Macro Lens > > Thanks, William, Brian, Bruce, Collin, JC, Mark and Joe, for your > interesting and very informative posts. > > I think I am leaning towards the Pentax D FA 100mm 2.8, but still > thinking about it. > > Joe, I did quite a bit of work with extension tube when I used only my > Asahi Spotmatic and my Honeywell Spotmatic. It was actually quite a > bit of fun. I don't have either the eyesight or the patience to go > back to extension tubes at this point in my life, however.. I think I > need autofocus to get in the ball park before final adjustment in > manual focus mode. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:50 PM, J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: >> I use my SMC Pentax-A 50mm F2.8 almost exclusively for >> product photography (ebay) and results are excellent. >> Highly recommended for that usage. >> >> ----------------- >> J.C.O'Connell >> [email protected] >> ----------------- >> >> >> -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
