C200: What's your go to for shooting CU/Macro images?

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puredrifting

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Getting ready to shoot some table top. I have a lot of Canon lenses but no Macro lenses. I used to have my favorite Nikon 105mm f/2.8 Micro that I loved but I sold it off because I rarely used it.
Do any of you use extension tubes, diopters or split diopters to shoot tabletop? Not shooting insects or really small things but photos in frames, jewelery, small personal objects so
I need to get a little closer than most of my lenses minimum focusing distance. What's your favorite way to shoot table top with the C200/300 MKII as far as Canon lenses and getting perhaps 8-10" away
for most subjects? I can rent a macro lens but the FOV and ultra shallow DOF on a S35 imager and a 60-100mm Macro lens is seemingly a negative for this shoot, I am thinking I may go wider and close instead?
That would point me toward extension tubes, reverse rings or lens diopters?
 
I know you already mentioned it may not work and I don't do a ton of macro shooting but -- at my rental house, we rent out the Canon 100mm L-Series Macro a lot or you might try closeup diopters. If you want to go nuts, we've also had a lot of success with the Laowa probe lens for extreme macro stuff.
 
laverdir said:
Just tape 'nifty fifty' upside down.
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I've thought about buying some reversing rings, I have the Canon 28mm f/1.8, 50mm f/1.8 STM and 85mm f/1.8. The only thing I've seen that makes those a PITA is you cannot focus the lenses, other than by physically moving the camera or subject closer or farther away from each other.
I saw some YT videos exploring this and is it true, the wider the lens, when reversed, you gain greater magification?

Dustin, I think the 100mm focal length on a Macro may be too tight to get a nice cluster of photos, that lens would be good if I wanted to focus on the details of a single image perhaps? or shoot some very small things in super closeup. This is more for a title sequence so I need little vignettes of scenes of a few images, a few items sitting on a dresser top, etc. That Laowa lens is super interesting but I think that's for really small things or moving the lens through very tight spaces? Not sure what it would do for me in this scenario.

I'm going to break out all of my lenses and shoot some tests to see the kinds of frames, distances and DOF I need to get the shots I am imagining.
 
Canon’s EF-S 60mm f2.8 Macro is really a lovely lens that I’ve enjoyed for stills and long ago tossed on a C100. I don’t know if it would vignette on a C200. An inexpensive rental or maybe a demo at the counter of a photo store would answer that... IMO it’s a hidden gem at a good fl for head&shoulders. And, yes, macro with full AF etc.
 
Not sure if you've checked it out but this 35mm macro came out a few years back. Looks interesting. 1/1 Magnification and 5.1" min focusing distance. 35mm could help with your FoV and DoF requirements.

Been meaning to pick one up and haven't gotten around to it so unfortunately can't attest to its strengths and weaknesses. I was interested in it for autofocus and the IS.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1332311-REG/canon_2220c002_ef_s_35mm_f_2_8_macro.html
 
Interesting, I am shooting tests and decided to try out my Fujifilm XT-3 and the Fujinon XF 16mm f/1.4 lens. Besides being a really fast, sharp lens that I like shooting with, I just discovered that it's minimum focusing distance is 5.91" and that's a nice frame to encompass one or two 3.5 x 5 or 4x6 snapshots, even possibly three images once the photos are in frames. I think this lens is going to work out pretty well for my needs here. It's not a 1:1 macro lens but that's an amazingly close focusing distance for a none-macro lens. Thanks for all of the suggestions. It appears I needed a wide angle close focusing lens, more than a macro lens.
 
I mostly use the Canon 24-105 when I need to get close and when I need even closer I go with the Canon 100L. I never had the need for anything else.
 
I use macro lens for my wildlife projects. I have the Canon 100mm f2.8 L IS USM lens. I use it with extension tubes etc to get tiny spiders and other critters very large in the screen.
 
indiawilds said:
I use macro lens for my wildlife projects. I have the Canon 100mm f2.8 L IS USM lens. I use it with extension tubes etc to get tiny spiders and other critters very large in the screen.
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At some point, I'll probably buy another macro lens, shooting macro is so much fun but it'll be a tough decision about which lens to get. There is that new, almost shipping Laowa macro that gives 2:1 reproduction at under $500.00. A friend has the Canon 100 2.8 IS and loves it, I can borrow that one anytime I want to drive about 100 miles round trip.
I am also intrigued by the inexpensive Canon EF S 35mm f/2.8 IS macro with the little built in LED lights, that's an interesting lens. The Fujinon XF80mm f/2.8 OIS LM WR is also a very well regarded macro lens. Tough to say if I'd rather shoot my XT-3 for macro or my C200 but in a way, it doesn't matter since I have the Fringer Pro adapter and can shoot EF and EF S lenses with the XT-3. The XT-3 is certainly easier to mount on my slider and I could even break out my old PortaJib Traveler which is really fun for table top althought it is such a PITA to move, setup and breakdown.
 
Not a Canon lens and your problem is solved, but the Contax Zeiss 34-70 f/3.4 has excellent macro.

Btw that Fuji 16mm 1.4 is a special lens. In fact, my three go-to lenses on Fuji (16 1.4; 35 1.4; 56 1.2) all are special in some amazing way, and I wish I could put these lenses on my other cameras.
 
Fahnon said:
Not a Canon lens and your problem is solved, but the Contax Zeiss 34-70 f/3.4 has excellent macro.

Btw that Fuji 16mm 1.4 is a special lens. In fact, my three go-to lenses on Fuji (16 1.4; 35 1.4; 56 1.2) all are special in some amazing way, and I wish I could put these lenses on my other cameras.
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Wow. I didn't even know that a Zeiss 34-70 existed, interesting. I ended up using the Fujinon XF16mm f/1.4 WR on the XT-3 mounted on my Rhino EVO Motion system and some lock offs, worked great. It's hard to believe that the 16mm has a minimum focusing distance of 5.91", almost macro-like. Here's a frame cap from the shoot.

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