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Hi everyone, like to get a macro lens for wedding work.

Looking at the
Tamron 90mm
Sigma 105mm
Nikon 105mm or 60mm.

Any advice would be great. Thanks

shutterbug wrote:Hi everyone, like to get a macro lens for wedding work.

Looking at the
Tamron 90mm
Sigma 105mm
Nikon 105mm or 60mm.

Any advice would be great. Thanks

Buy all, they're all good and excellent macro lenses, I didn't see anything which I can say about them! one of each and you'll have fun

Out of curiosity, what part of the wedding would you use macro on.
Do you really want to get that close to the rings or something?

phillipb wrote:Out of curiosity, what part of the wedding would you use macro on.
Do you really want to get that close to the rings or something?

Spot on!diamond ring!!!!!

very funny birddog...buy all of them

Use them for ring shoots, for details shoots of invites, flowers..etc

Birddog114 wrote:

shutterbug wrote:Hi everyone, like to get a macro lens for wedding work.

Looking at the
Tamron 90mm
Sigma 105mm
Nikon 105mm or 60mm.

Any advice would be great. Thanks

Buy all, they're all good and excellent macro lenses, I didn't see anything which I can say about them! one of each and you'll have fun

hahahahaha...won't have any $$ after picking up the 17-55mm
Will be sleeping in the backyard for a month wife not happy

shutterbug wrote:

Birddog114 wrote:

shutterbug wrote:Hi everyone, like to get a macro lens for wedding work.

Looking at the
Tamron 90mm
Sigma 105mm
Nikon 105mm or 60mm.

Any advice would be great. Thanks

Buy all, they're all good and excellent macro lenses, I didn't see anything which I can say about them! one of each and you'll have fun

hahahahaha...won't have any $$ after picking up the 17-55mm
Will be sleeping in the backyard for a month wife not happy

That what the backyard for having lot of fun with the macro lenses in the backyard and the wife will comes

shutterbug wrote:Hi everyone, like to get a macro lens for wedding work.

Looking at the
Tamron 90mm
Sigma 105mm
Nikon 105mm or 60mm.

Any advice would be great. Thanks

You can't go past the tamron 90mm.

cheers

Also can’t go past the Sigma 105mm - at least 3 forum users have this lens. The beauty of the 150 or 180 Sigma macro would be that you can get closer by being further away - if that makes sense

out of curiosity, what is the price difference between the four lenses?

birddog..do you know the price of the tamron?

phillipb wrote:Out of curiosity, what part of the wedding would you use macro on.
Do you really want to get that close to the rings or something?

Wedding night photos.

Mounted, of course.

gstark wrote:

phillipb wrote:Out of curiosity, what part of the wedding would you use macro on.
Do you really want to get that close to the rings or something?

Wedding night photos.

Mounted, of course.

In that case he'd better get a "ring" flash as well.

sirhc55 wrote:Also can’t go past the Sigma 105mm

Who says so?

I don't seem to have any problems doing this ...

Sorry, Chris

shutterbug,

shutterbug wrote:Hi everyone, like to get a macro lens for wedding work.

Looking at the
Tamron 90mm
Sigma 105mm
Nikon 105mm or 60mm.

Any advice would be great. Thanks

You may want to check out the 'Sigma 150mm APO Macro F2.8 EX DG HSM' in the 'Bargin' section .

http://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/lenses ... avigator=5

ta ta for now,

shutterbug wrote::lol:

Tamron 90 is around 600 bucks

Granted it is not a macro, but see what you can do with the 17-55 before you grab a macro lens. The 17-55 focuses close enough for me for any wedding work I do.

This is presuming you only wanted this lens for your wedding work.

gstark wrote:

sirhc55 wrote:Also can’t go past the Sigma 105mm

Who says so?

I don't seem to have any problems doing this ...

Sorry, Chris

I’m the same way about WWII Gary - it never happened

JordanP wrote:Granted it is not a macro, but see what you can do with the 17-55 before you grab a macro lens. The 17-55 focuses close enough for me for any wedding work I do.

This is presuming you only wanted this lens for your wedding work.

Thanks Craig,

will give the17-55 a try first, picking it up soon. Yep just want the macro for wedding work and some weekend fun macro work

Birddog114 wrote:

shutterbug wrote::lol:

Tamron 90 is around 600 bucks

That's abit expensive...rather get the nikon. I thought it would be around the $500 make

shutterbug wrote:

Birddog114 wrote:

shutterbug wrote::lol:

Tamron 90 is around 600 bucks

That's abit expensive...rather get the nikon. I thought it would be around the $500 make

I don't sell Tamron even though I have one 90Di + 01 x 180Di macro lens, mainly Nikon "gold box" or Sigma with "Platinum band".
$600.00 is Sydney retail pricing.
The 17-55Dx can do something nearly macro but can't get closed to Macro lenses (1:1)

Vince

I have been on this path for a while (getting a macro lens, that is)

At the moment, I use my Tamron 70-300 which has a 1:2 macro capability, but I would love a dedicated 1:1 macro.

The Tamron and Sigma el cheapo zooms 70-300 both have macro and cost <$250. And the results are surprisingly good for the money.

However, that Sigma 150 would be a beauty.

sirhc55 wrote:

gstark wrote:

sirhc55 wrote:Also can’t go past the Sigma 105mm

Who says so?

I don't seem to have any problems doing this ...

Sorry, Chris

I’m the same way about WWII Gary - it never happened

Don't mention the war!

Duck's off, too.

Vince, just went through the same question. All are very good, which is why it is hard to choose. Some opinions I have seen is that the Nikon is an older design, a couple have even spoke about a VR macro coming out. It seems there is only a gnats whisker between them. My Sigma 105 was delivered on Monday.