These little guys are small, probably around 5 or 6mm across, so I wasn’t able to fill the frame with him, even by focusing at the nearest focusing distance of 1 foot or 30cms. I adjusted the strobe heads, and went back to find the spider still clinging to the ceiling in the hall. I took a moment to figure out that the adapter screws into the filter thread on the lens and the Twin Lite attaches to the adapter. It was dark up there, and even the new Hybrid IS was not enough to enable me to get a shot, so I reached for the Macro Twin Lite. I ended up shooting the little critter on the ceiling in the hallway, as he’d ran out of the living room. The original 100mm was definitely no slouch when it came to sharpness and nice smooth bokeh.Ĭute Little Spider F11 with Macro Twin-Lite Strobe ![]() We can see that it is a nice crisp image, even wide open, and has pleasing bokeh. The first image here is shot with the original 100mm Macro lens, wide open at F2.8. We’ll get to some real world examples from the field later, but first, let’s look at the billiard ball shots to illustrate my point. My tests basically confirmed that the lens has slightly smoother bokeh than the original Canon EF 100mm F2.8 USM Macro lens. What I did was lined up nine billiard balls, and shot them with both the new 100mm F2.8 IS macro, and my old 100mm F2.8 non-IS and non-L macro. I haven’t done the test chart shots yet, though I’ll try to do that within the next week or so. So, the first thing I did on Friday when I got the new lens was to set up a test shot. We’ll take a quick look at a shot I made on Sunday morning of a house spider later, for which I used the 25mm Extension Tube and Macro Twin Lite shortly. I also picked up a Macrolite Adapter 67, which is an adapter ring to enable you to use the new 100mm macro lens with the Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX or the Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX, which is what I have. You can get larger than this though with extension tubes. If you use a crop factor camera however, the 1cm object will take up 16mm, or 13mm for a 1.3X crop factor camera. Just to recap what shooting at life-size means - basically if you shoot something that is 1cm long in real life, at life-size, the object take up 1cm on the image as well, by comparison to the 35mm film or digital sensor. ![]() This really helps to balance the whole setup, which you really need when shooting at 1:1 or life-size. Due to the simultaneous release of the 7D, the store was pretty crowded with people picking up their gear in what I think are some pretty revolutionary additions to the Canon line-up.Īlong with my lens, I also bought the new tripod ring so that I can mount the lens directly to my tripod and not the camera. I ordered mine as soon as I saw the announcement on the Canon Web site, and was one of the first people to get my grubby little mits on one. I’m not sure if Canon is using this marketing worldwide, but in Japan, they are calling the 7D the Image Monster! On the same day as the 7D release, Canon also released their new EF 100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM and having tested it both in the field and under more controlled conditions, I’m dubbing it the Bokeh Monster! I have been looking forward to this for the last month or so, since Canon announced it.
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