Anyone had experience with the Canon 500D on a 200m f2.8 lens?

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I have used the Canon 250D closeup lens (filter)on various Canon lenses with the 58mm filter size with good success. Has anyone had any experience with the Canon 500D on the Canon 200mm f2.8 L series lens? While I am asking, has anyone used the 500D on the Canon 28-135mm IS lens? I realize that the 500D is intended for lenses beyond 75mm but wondered if it might work at the 100-135mm end of 28-135mm lens. I realize also that this is the "soft" end of the zoom range.

I already have the Canon 100mm f2.8 USM macro lens, but am just looking for other possibities.

Thanks.

-- Richard Snyder (rsnyder@lc.cc.il.us), April 19, 2002

Answers

I have a Canon 500D which certainly fits my EF 28-135 IS and my EF 200mm f/2.8 L, each of which have a 72mm filter mount. This will only get about 0.4x to 0.6x magnification unless you also add extenstion behind the lens.

Perhaps I just too new to macro photography, but is not the EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro easier to use, but should it not produce sharper pictures since it was intended for close-up shooting?

Are you trying to shoot handheld macro using the Image Stabilizer? Or trying to get more working distance?

-- Julian Loke (elan7e-owner@yahoogroups.com), April 21, 2002.


This was simply a question of curiosity. I have taken some very nice closeups with the 28-135mm lens and was just curious what the effect would be with the 500D.

The 200mm lens has a rather long closest focusing distance and, again, I was just wondering what the effect would be. I have used this lens on a Canon D30 and gotten some nice "closeup" shots but not true macro of course. It would be nice to be able to use this for greater working distance than my 100mm lens.

Thanks for your feedback.

-- Richard Snyder (rsnyder@lc.cc.il.us), April 21, 2002.


The thing about close-up lenses like the 500D is that they give ANY lens a MAXIMUM working distance of 50cm. At that distance, the EF 200mm f/2.8 will give a magnification of 0.4x, and the EF 28-135 a magnification of 0.27x.

Alas, Canon did not see fit to add an Image Stabilizer to the latest EF 100mm f/2.8 USM macro. In the meantime, people determined (or silly) enough to try handheld macro shooting with IS lenses like the 28-135 IS USM or the 100-400 IS USM can get sharp pictures limited by macro DOF.

-- Julian Loke (elan7e-owner@yahoogroups.com), April 21, 2002.


Julian,

Thanks for the images. They were very helpful. Thanks as well for your comments.

-- Richard Snyder (rsnyder@lc.cc.il.us), April 22, 2002.


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