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Old 05-04-10, 08:57
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Hi Trena - I would look in the region of 100 mm for a macro lens - this usually gives a reasonable stand back distance to magnification ratio for macro work of that type. I feel that with a 50 or 60 mm Macro's you need to be too close to the subject unless you are doing table top/light box macro.
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