Henk Terhell uses his K70 & HD 55-300 PLM very successfully for insect shots. The big advantake is that the photographer is distant from easily disturbed subjects. A difficulty with a Bigma is that it is a bit soft at 500mm.  I have tried it with my screw-drive HD 55-300 & K5 but the focusing is rather slow by comparison.

Alan C

On 09/06/2025 00:03, Larry Colen wrote:

On another photo list, someone was asking about borrowing a macro lens for a trip to Costa Rica,  someone suggested putting extension tubes on their telephoto. As usual my mind went to a silly, probably impractical place.

What if I were to put extension tubes on my Sigma 50-500?  Have any of you tried doing something like this?  Putting extension tubes on a fairly long telephoto, to make a ridiculously long macro?

For them that like photos, on a related subject, here are 3 photos I processed last night of a cropped fence lizard that I took with my bigma a couple of weeks back:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72177720326695531

It's probably a blue belly, I didn't get close enough to check.


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