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Borrowing a Friends Macro Lens

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Midnight
, 11-26-2012 at 07:21 PM (17081 Views)
My wife and the kids usually share Thanksgiving with two of our friends and godparents to our children. They came to our house this year and we had a great feast. The turkey was fried to perfection and we ate until we were fat and happy. And no, we did not burn down the house or kill the family by frying the turkey.

I found out that they had a Cannon macro lens and asked to borrow it to take pictures of the reef. This is my first experience with the lens, so it took some getting used too. This is the 50mm EF coupled with the Cannon EOS 7D.















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  1. blakew's Avatar
    Cool macros...the little snail eyes are neat
  2. melev's Avatar
    You did really well, it looks like you got use to it quite fast in fact. Thanks for sharing. How's your tank doing overall? It's been up for about four months now?
  3. Midnight's Avatar
    The tank has been up since July 13, so 4 and 1/2 months. The parameters are all staying in check. I need to exchange my CO2 cylinder so I can get my CAL reactor online. And I am waiting to order the plumbing to finish the manifold til January or February.

    The lens worked ok. However, when I purchase one it will be the 100mm with IS. Shooting top down, with the 50 mm, did not produce the magnification I was expecting.
  4. melev's Avatar
    A 50mm isn't a macro lens (usually). I have a 105mm AF/S Macro lens, but I don't use it all that often.
  5. Midnight's Avatar
    Yeah cannon makes three main macro lenses: 50mm, 60mm, and the 100mm. the 50 mm macro image differs greatly from the regular 55 mm.

    Taking pictures with the 55-135mm, the one you saw at macna, is actually tough to take tank pictures with. I did find that taking pictures from the top does solve a lot of DOF(depth of field) issues though