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.
----------------- J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net ----------------- -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] 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 <hifis...@gate.net> 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 > hifis...@gate.net > ----------------- > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
