i have Nikon F401 SLR camera, with Tamron telephoto zoom lens with macro, the lens is good, but I want to buy a good, powerful and inexpensive lans, so I can take pictures for my cooking book(like those pics in cooking books), Don鈥檛 know what kind a lens, and from where I should buy it?Need advice from good photographers.Please 鈥?Help Me鈥淭hanks in advance,and a promise for 5 stars. Its not clear to me that you need to be looking at true macro lenses for what you are doing, but you might want something which will give you a relatively close focus. For example, my Canon FD 50mm f3.5 SSC without an extender gives 1/2 life size images. Given that the image size of 35mm film is 36mm x 24 mm, that means that you are taking an image of something 76mm x 48mm (3in x 2in approx). That is a bit less than a standard slice of bread cut in half.
What is now generally known as macro was once (more correctly) known as close focus, although Canon used the term 'macro' both to describe its macro lenses and the close focus setting on its zoom lenses for the FD series. How confusing!
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You don't say why your current Tamron lens is unsuitable. Depending upon its focal length range, my first thought was that it probably would have been suitable. You could consider a Nikon 60 mm macro lens, but it sells for $400 new and you pretty much never see them used as it is an excellent lens. You could also get a 50-55 prime lens, say f/2.0 so it's not too expensive, and use "close up lenses" that screw onto the front of the lens like a filter. You could get the lens for abot $100 or so and the close up lens kit (3 lenses) for $20-30. They are tricky to learn to use as you have VERY LITTLE depth of field if you try to use anything but infinity focus on your prime lens. You choose the magnification that you want, screw it (or them) onto your lens and then focus by moving back and forth until your subject is in focus. This is the cheapest way to get good results. |
