Lens for small insects and flowers

Lovely shot, but aren’t those ‘Hanging Thieves’ fairly large – like a couple of centimetres in body length? In my personal vocabulary, that’d be a mega-macro bug.

Check out the versatility of this lens

The Host Insect at low magnification:

The Parasite on its back at high magnification:

All I had to do was twist the focus ring on the lens and move the camera closer (handheld) to change magnification. No messing around with lens extenders.

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