----- Original Message ----- From: "Anders Hultman" Subject: RE: 50 or 100 mm
> > I'm not sure that I follow you here. How will it affect the picture > if I use the 50mm or the 100mm lens? Will I get the same thing but > from different distances? It will affect you the same way changing focal length with any scene type affects you. > > So, my question really is which of the two new Pentax macro lenses I > should get if I wanted the largest possible magnification. They're > both 1:1 but is it "the same 1:1" so to speak? I'm only used to using > the bellows, and with that it really is a difference between a 50mm > lens and a longer one. 1:1 is what either lens will give you unaided. Toss a bellows on as well, and the 50mm will give more magnification, although working distances can become short enough as to make lighting difficult.
