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Originally Posted by Judy M.
I have one more question, another photographer warned me against lenses that have the macro switch that changes the lens to macro. Was there a reason behind this? or just a bad experience? I have a Nikon 24-85mm F 1:2.8-4 D lens that has the macro (1:2) switch but have not played with it much due to questions that I now have the answers to (thanks to this forum) and the fact that I had been told that it wasn't a good thing.
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As Wolfie has said, such lenses don't give a 1:1 ratio that a true macro lens will. However, as far as I know, there's nothing wrong with using such lenses for macro work, it just won't deliver quite as good results as a dedicated macro lens. For amny years all I had for macro work was such lenses, I was always pleased with the results, that said I have recently got a dedicated macro lens and have noticed the difference.
I would say that using your existing lens on macro setting will give you a good idea as to whether you'd get much out of a macro lens.