08-18-2010, 10:46 AM
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Yes, I agree that there isn't much magnification, and the results from your zoom are preferable to my eye than these examples, but I am sure that I had the lens as far as it would turn to mfd, and I just used the rail to slide the camera in to focus with and without the tube on.
The last photo there of the tripod next to the anemone gives some scale, but overall they are small bumble-bees on large Japanese anemone. I am at a different computer, but I recall my exif indicating that 220mm was the focus distance on all shots either with or without the 12mm tube, and these are with a 5D II.
Truthfully, I wouldn't post these images as examples of my photography either, but I thought it would relatively clearly answer the utility of this lens for close-focus with the tube on, however I didn't utilize tilt in the anemone examples; but I really didn't think it worthwhile or practical anyways. On a flatter, more two dimensional subject like the lightmeter there are benefits to the close focus and tilt, but again, I would much rather use the ts-e 90 than the 24. I am still learning to use the lens, and get a feel for when to use movements, but I still have a long ways to go.
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Sorry, you seem to have been writing a reply while I was editing my post.
Like I wrote in the edited version, what puzzles me is why, with 12mm ext. tube, you are not reaching past 1:3.5, something the lens can do on its own. I will shoot the same anemones with 24mm and 12mm ext. tube, to show the huge difference...
Yes, I agree that there isn't much magnification, and the results from your zoom are preferable to my eye than these examples, but I am sure that I had the lens as far as it would turn to mfd, and I just used the rail to slide the camera in to focus with and without the tube on.
The last photo there of the tripod next to the anemone gives some scale, but overall they are small bumble-bees on large Japanese anemone. I am at a different computer, but I recall my exif indicating that 220mm was the focus distance on all shots either with or without the 12mm tube, and these are with a 5D II.
Truthfully, I wouldn't post these images as examples of my photography either, but I thought it would relatively clearly answer the utility of this lens for close-focus with the tube on, however I didn't utilize tilt in the anemone examples; but I really didn't think it worthwhile or practical anyways. On a flatter, more two dimensional subject like the lightmeter there are benefits to the close focus and tilt, but again, I would much rather use the ts-e 90 than the 24. I am still learning to use the lens, and get a feel for when to use movements, but I still have a long ways to go.
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Sorry, you seem to have been writing a reply while I was editing my post.
Like I wrote in the edited version, what puzzles me is why, with 12mm ext. tube, you are not reaching past 1:3.5, something the lens can do on its own. I will shoot the same anemones with 24mm and 12mm ext. tube, to show the huge difference...