Just my twopennies worth, I've been shooting macro for many years. I now use the Canon 100mm & Sigma 180mm, for illumination I use a lastolite softbox attached to my Sigma flash gun. Would love the Canon twin light macro flash, but find it to be a little to expensive.
As for tripods I kicked the Benbo Trekker into touch, it's a very versatile tripod but a bit of a pig to set up. I recently purchased a Giottos Innovator Tripod MT 9170 which I find to be far superior to the Benbo and equally as versatile + it's also perfect for my canon 10D with the Bigma attached.
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