phinix wrote: sebbe wrote:
I'm documenting for a neighbour a school garden over the summer. Yesterday we had a hardly seen guest.
Hummingbird Hawk-Moth in action
(with a Marumi+3 achromat)
How close were you to the subject with that +3?
Trying to figure out if I could get +5 and have almost 1:1 macro lens combo this way.
A little late to the party, but I can contribute a bit.
I've owned the 40/1.2 and 50/1.2. I only have the numbers for the 50/1.2 but they're not hugely different.
Max. magnification with 10mm of extension: 1:2.9
Max. magnification with 16mm of extension: 1:2.1
Enormous field curvature, high amount of aberations off-center. Tiny working distance. Not recommended.
Max. magnification with Marumi +3: 1:3.2
Max. magnification with Marumi +3: 1:2.4
High CAs off-center, still strong field curvature but much higher resolution than with extension tubes.
No solution will get you close to 1:1 and even then I doubt you'd be happy with the results unless you frame your subjects straight in the center and shoot at least at f/2.8 or better yet f/4.
