I have recently taken interest in insect photography, and have thought about purchasing a macro lens to help the photo quality. First off, does anyone know of a macro lens I could get (hopefully inexpensive) for my Canon EOS rebel t7? After some quick searching, I realized @huttonia had talked abou…

Firstly buy second hand (let the original owner pay the depreciation for you). Just a note that it may be a good idea to include your definition of inexpensive as it varies greatly from person to person. I’ve listed the best affordable macro lenses for Canon EF/EF-S mount below (roughly in order of…

Totally agree with Felix-insects. Great advice. You can get good results in macro with fairly inexpensive gear and work your way up to the more demanding stuff. Getting the lighting right makes more of a difference than the lens

[image] felix-nicholls: Sigma 105mm EX DG OS HSM Macro An excellent review by felix-insects. I’ll just add that I’ve been photographing mostly macro for a great many years now and have accumulated a few macro lenses in my time, but I find my go-to lens is almost always the Sigma 105mm. I boug…

Yeah those Sigma lenses are built well - I had to take my 150mm macro apart and the internal structural components are all cast metal, explains why it’s so heavy! I assume that it’s the older 105mm EX DG (see photo below) given that you got it in 2005? [DSC00685White]

[image] felix-nicholls: I assume that it’s the older 105mm EX DG (see photo below) given that you got it in 2005? Yes, that’s her, a few scratches and dents, but she’s never let me down :heart_eyes:! I’ve also got the 150mm which I love even more for quality and performance in the field, but …

It’s a nice lens isn’t it - it was my first proper macro lens and I just recently retired mine from field work as I’m now using the sigma 150mm and Tamron 90mm macro. I’ll have to pull it apart and get the mechanism working nicely again at some point (the focus ring resistance is not even and there …

Macro lens recommendations for Canon EOS rebel t7?

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