Feroze Kistan wrote: > Any advice on a good 100mm Macro would be > greatly appreciated. I have to shoot anything from jwellery to cell phones > to groceries.
The Pentax 100mm f/4 macros are lovely little lenses which are very reasonably priced if you can find one. They go 1:2. All the 100mm f/4's use the same optical formula, from the screwmount ones to the A-series. They are very nice lenses and are built like tanks. There's also the FA100mm f/2.8 macro if you want 1:1 without adaptors, and/or the faster aperture. The F-version has the same optics but some small mechanical differences. I bought the FA lens as soon as I found one secondhand as the screwmount one was a pain to use on my K-mount bodies with the adaptor. Others have mentioned various 3rd-party macro lenses but I can't comment on those as I've never used them! From what I've heard I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a bad macro lens (true macro, that is). Because your subjects are going to be still there's probably not a lot of point in looking specifically for an autofocus macro. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ (out of date)
