Both can optionally be fitted with tripod mounting rings (recommended). Any longer focal length becomes difficult to get enough depth of field and a steady shot, you are more likely to need to use a tripod, flash and very small apertures.Ĭanon 100/2.8 USM Macro and 100/2.8L IS USM Macro are both top quality lenses with all the features I can think of that one might want in a macro lens. That's what I'd recommend for someone shooting with a crop sensor camera. There are a number of good macro lenses in the 90mm to 105mm focal length range. That's the primary reason you might want to consider a longer focal length (and the MP-E65mm would actually do the opposite and put you closer to subjects). the 60mm focal length can put you pretty close to some subjects. It's fast focusing and has excellent image quality. Your EF-S 60mm is nice and compact, encouraging you to take it with you and use it. If you aren't, you won't do any better with a different lens and actually might find the MP-E 65mm makes matters worse because it's more difficult to work with and specialized. I suggest you do so and read it thoroughly, before buying the lens.įrankly, your EF-S 60mm is an excellent macro lens and you should be able to get great shots with that. You can download the user manual for the MP-E 65mm from the Canon website. There is a special, unusual lens hood for the MP-E, too. The lens comes with a tripod mounting ring and it is nearly impossible to use handheld. A bellows is impractical with electronically controlled lenses, such as the EF/EOS system uses.īesides a dedicated macro flash, previous post is correct and you will almost certainly need a good tripod, head and macro focusing rail to use with this lens. For the large part, is cannot be used handheld and is extremely difficult to use with any moving subject (even a snail!) In the Canon system, it does a good job serving purposes that less convenient "macro bellows" filled in vintage cameras systems. I would not recommend the MP-E 65mm Macro lens to everyone. With other, lower magnification macro lenses I use the MT-24EX Macro Twin Lite or a standard flash (580EX II and others) off-camera and diffused. The lens is designed to allow the Ring Lite to mount directly to it. ![]() But it's the ideal choice for this particular lens, with it's very high magnification capabilities. I'm not a big fan of ring light flashes for lower magnification macro (the lighting can be too "flat" for my tastes). For the shot of the snail above, the ML-14EX Macro Ring Lite was used. What this means is that very likely a flash or some other form of additional lighting will be needed for most shots with this lens. It's smallest aperture is f16 at the minimum mag, but by the time you focus to the max the aperture it's an effective f90. One side effect of this is that the lens' aperture effectively is reduced, as the lens is focused to higher magnifications. It goes from about 4" long at minimim mag to 9" long at the max. ![]() This means the lens extends when focusing closer. The MP-E also is not an Internal Focusing (IF) lens like the EF-S 60mm, EF 100mm and EF 180mm macro lenses. At it's highest mag, it's less than an inch from the subject. The max working distance, farthest away the lens can focus (at it's weakest magnification) is four inches. The MP-E is manual focus only and cannot focus anywhere close to infinity. You can fill the entire image area of your camera with a grain of rice. The very least magnification possible with it is 1:1, which is the maximum magnification most macro lenses reach on their own. The surface the snail is crawling on is a photo in a newspaper, you can see the photo's printed dot pattern pretty clearly. probably less than but not more than about 2:1 or twice life size. ![]() This baby snail, with a shell around 6 or 7mm in diameter, was photographed with the MP-E 65mm Macro lens near that lens' least magnification.
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