"Bandicoot" <"insert_handle_here"@techemail.com> wrote in message
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> "John Loomis" wrote in message
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>> Hello,
>> I am an amateur digital photographer, and actually do pretty well but
>> need to learn much.
>> What would be a great close-up lense for a Pentax Automatic
>> Digital Camera.
>> Any suggestions for me?
>> Thanks
>> John Loomis
>>
>
> You mean a camera lens (there's only one 'e' in lens) not a supplementary
> lens that you screw onto the front, right?
Right, the lens you screw onto the front!
The one of many that a person may have.
>
> The answer depends on several things:
>
> How much you want to spend;
Depends on the quality of lens.....
300.00 to 700.00 I think is a range....for a macro lens.
>
> What sort of subjects you want to shoot (if you are copying documents or
> photographing stamps a 50mm might be best, for general work on natural
> subjects a 100mm is a good all rounder, for butterflies a 200mm is
> better);
Water droplets, mushrooms,fungi,spider-webs, blossoms, bugs
Hey.........the little stuff!
>
> Whether you want auto-focus (very useful for some macro subjects, more
> trouble than it's worth for others);
I have auto-focus capability, and can turn that off and manual focus also.
I do not mind auto for some things....specially bee's. They seem to light
as soon as you get that big lens near them.
>
> Whether you want the lens to do double duty for anything else as well as
> close-up work;
I always considers double duty.....but close-up is what I would like.
>
> Whether you are only interested in buying new, or would consider a used
> lens.
I do not mind new, unless a used one is available and of good quality.
>
> Depending on your answers, there's a selection of Pentax macro lenses that
> are as sharp as you will find anywhwere, and a couple of others (notably
> the
> Tamron 90mm f2.5) that are very nearly as sharp as the best Pentaxes and
> still blow away most other makes.
>
> 'Macro zooms' are generally no such thing (there is one zoom lens that is
> a
> true macro, the no-longer-made Vivitar Series 1 Flat Field 90-180mm f4.5,
> but it is rare and not cheap) so you are basically looking at a fixed FL.
> The choices are, more or less, 50mm, 90 / 100mm, and 180 / 200mm. I have
> and use all three, but the 100mm length is the best all rounder for the
> sort
> of work that I do.
>
> If you have answers to the questions above, I or someone else may be able
> to
> give you a more specific reply.
>
>
>
> Peter
Hello Peter, Thanks for your help.
I will wurk on mi speelung good.
LOL
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