I guess it depends on how close Walt wants to get. A lot of what I do is "close" rather than "true macro" and I find the extra distance with the 90mm Tamron on the *ist DS is more workable than with my 50mm Macro Takumar. I often use flash and find that I can't get the light where I want it with the 50.
Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia Quoting "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you are going to shoot APS digital I would recommend > a 50mm over any 90-105mm Macros for a sole macro lens, those others > are > too > long for general purpose macro IMHO. I would go with a fast > manual focus 50mm, which really limits you to the > SMC-A 50mm F2.8 because the F4 models, while good, are > a little too hard to focus at 50mm. I have one ( SAM-A 50mm F2.8, > I > actually > bought it for APS digital years ago before I even got > APS digital because the price was right, and it works > quite nicely on the istDS and I would imagine even > better on a K10D as its so sharp in the macro range. > > I cant stress the 50mm strongly enough over 90-105mm if > you only want one macro lens for APS. I often find > even the 50mm too long, I would like a 35mm 2.8 Macro > for APS too but I dont know of any out there yet. > > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of > Walter Hamler > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Macro Lenses > > > I need a macro lens. Don't want to spend the bucks for the latest > Pentax > AF, > for that matter I think I would prefer a MF version. KEH has some > 100mm > f/4 > in different versions, one being an A model. They also have a Sigma > 90mm > > f/2.8 A . > Anyone know anything about these or others that I need to > consider? > > Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Click for free info on human resource careers and make $150K/ year http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/CAaCMPJdTD3YSriLIIQEtXsC7xg5FB94/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
