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Message: <blockquote data-quote="emcintyre60" data-source="post: 1779" data-attributes="member: 584"><p>In my experience, the faster aperture is certainly an advantage in those situations in which you want to shoot in lower light without a flash (e.g., close up photos of your cut flowers in a vase).  The problem I have with my macro lenses (60mm, 105mm, and a 35-70mm zoom that can convert to macro at 35mm) is that the depth of field is very narrow even at the highest f-stop -- and this is compounded when you are shooting wide open.  Of course, there are many times that you want that narrow DOF; but if, for example, you want to capture a full frame rose and have all petals in focus, it just won't do that.  (Though -- photo editing software will allow you to stitch mutliple frames, so there are ways around it.)</p></blockquote><p></p>