Canon MPE-65mm F2.8 Macro 1-5X Lens

[Gibmeister]

Anyone have any experience with this lens. Anyone have any examples of photos taken with this lens. I like taking close up shots of insects and plants and was wondering if the quality of this lens is worth the price. Thanks.

Gib

[ron chappel]

"is the quality worth the price?"
In my opinion not unless you do ALOT of serious work with it.Because macro is such a subject driven genre,it's not all that hard for a cheap lens pic to be better than one with a super great lens.A flat field is no good with an insect either

There are actually allternatives to this specialist lens also.The EFs 18-55 is very similar in magnification when reversed! :D
Sure it's no fun handholding it reversed but it can be done.
The better way is to buy the lens reversing kit for about us$350

(?sorry can't remember right now but a google search will quickly find it)

[rickyd]

I have both the MPE 65macro and the 100macro F2.8. IMHO the 100 is much more useful and does the job 90% of the time. However if you are a REALLY SERIOUS macro photographer the MPE65 will give you shots that you could only otherwise get shooting through a microscope.! Be aware also that the focal distances are REALLY short with the MPE65. Good Luck.

[Gibmeister]

Thanks for the information. Do you have any photos with the MPE-65 you could share. It sounds like a nice lens, but very much a specialty lens.

[Olegis]

The MPE-65 lens is covered in this review (http://www.vividlight.com/articles/2914.htm), and you can see many examples of the pictures it produces here (http://www.beautifulbugs.com/).
This lens can do some wonderful things if used properly ...

[Gibmeister]

Oleg,

Good information in the article. I think I will stick with my Sigma 105mm macro for now unless a good buy comes up on a used one of these.

Gib