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Message: <blockquote data-quote="480sparky" data-source="post: 213230" data-attributes="member: 15805">When you get into macrophotography, don't get wrapped up in 'close focus'.  Getting TOO close is a problem... with lighting.  And two lenses with identical minimum focus will produce two very different images.... it's all about magnification or reproduction ratio, not distance.Extension tubes MAY work, depending on your camera.  You might lose the ability to autofocus.  But you would need to get tubes with the ability to maintain both the screw-drive focus system (if your lens doesn't have a focus motor in it) as well as the electrical contacts for communication between the lens and camera.</blockquote>