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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 809589" data-attributes="member: 50197"><p>If you are looking at the 70-300 lens as a macro, you will be disappointed. It is a tele zoom. My daughter has this lens and it works well as a tele, but it does not provide close focus capability. It's minimum focus distance is just shy of 4 ft with a magnification ratio of .25. A true macro lens will give you 1.0, more commonly known as 1:1. Also a true macro lens is also optimized for close focus images, ie your close ups will probably be sharper. </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately this also comes at a price. The Z 105 micro lens runs a tad over $1,000. In England it's probably higher due to VAT taxes and other things. If you want to do macro on a budget, you can do what I am doing now and get a set of extension tubes and use it with a shorter focal length lens. I'm using it with my 24-70 F4 zoom, and get decent results. It's not as sharp as the dedicated macro lens, and working distances are short, but I can live with that now. I have a current thread going about my experiences with extension tubes, if you are interested.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://nikonites.com/forum/threads/settling-for-some-extension-tubes.47906/" target="_blank">Settling for extension tubes</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 809589, member: 50197"] If you are looking at the 70-300 lens as a macro, you will be disappointed. It is a tele zoom. My daughter has this lens and it works well as a tele, but it does not provide close focus capability. It's minimum focus distance is just shy of 4 ft with a magnification ratio of .25. A true macro lens will give you 1.0, more commonly known as 1:1. Also a true macro lens is also optimized for close focus images, ie your close ups will probably be sharper. Unfortunately this also comes at a price. The Z 105 micro lens runs a tad over $1,000. In England it's probably higher due to VAT taxes and other things. If you want to do macro on a budget, you can do what I am doing now and get a set of extension tubes and use it with a shorter focal length lens. I'm using it with my 24-70 F4 zoom, and get decent results. It's not as sharp as the dedicated macro lens, and working distances are short, but I can live with that now. I have a current thread going about my experiences with extension tubes, if you are interested. [URL='https://nikonites.com/forum/threads/settling-for-some-extension-tubes.47906/']Settling for extension tubes[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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