 Wendy Moghadam |
Macro wide angle vs wide ange Can someone tell me the difference with a macro wide angle and a regular wide angle. Can you take say an open field of flowers or sunset with a macro wide angle? If you get the macro would you still need a regular wide angle.
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doug Nelson |
A few years ago, Sigma and maybe other companies touted 28mm wides with "macro" focusing, but it was a sales gimmick. Normal wide angles (35, 28, 24, 20mm in film and full-size sensor terms)do let you get pretty close, and you can relate a subject to its wider environment with a wide. Canon and others made wide angle focal length lenses to use on a bellows for super close-ups, but that's beyond the realm of most of us amateurs. I'd stick with a wide angle for situations that need it (group shots of people in confined spaces, street shots, architecture, sweeping landscapes), and a true macro for close-ups. If you are shooting digital, some inexpensive point 'n shoots let you do macro that might meet your needs. Otherwise, get a true macro lens.
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doug Nelson |
It's clear to me from your web site that you know what you're doing with macro. What more could you need? You might get bigger blow-ups using a Canon 5D body and a 50mm or 100 mm macro. Other than that possible need, your work is superb.
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Alan N. Marcus |
Hi Wendy, As a rule of thumb, “macro” lenses are corrected for unity i.e. life size often stated as 1:1 or magnification 1. All lenses have errors. To name a few, chromatic aberration, astigmatism, barrel distortion, pincushion distortion, etc. Stated another way, macro lenses perform best at extremely close lens-to-subject distance. They are comprised when required to image distant vistas. Likely you will never observe substandard performance unless you make a side-by-side comparison with a non-macro counterpart. Conversely, a non-macro is compromised when asked to perform at close quarters. This is true even when pared with bellows, tubes, revering mounts or close-up supplemental lens attachments. Alan Marcus (marginal technical gobbledygook)
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Wendy Moghadam |
Thank you Doug and Alan. I wasn't sure because I'm still new to it all. I thought it seemed too good to be true- to have a "macro" and wide angle at the same time. And thank you Doug for the compliment, I really appreciate it.
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