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Hi Olaf, Thank you very much for your information. I set up the model according to your formula in excel and I made simulation with all the lenses I have and the lenses on my wish list. The more I simulate, the more I understand how special Macro lenses are and why they are so expensive. As a novis ...

Depends on your needs, intents, and purposes. For perfect and comfortable macro shooting---yes, you'll need a macro lens. While you can enable regular (i. e. non-macro) lenses to do close-up photography using special accessories like close-up lenses, extension tubes, bellows, and reverse rings, tho...

The Sony 50/2.8 Macro serves me mainly in my practice (skin diseases), but sometimes I do use it for portraiture. Take a look at this http://harmar.photoblogs.am/index.php?showimage=2437 Will be flattered to read your comments and critiques. Thanks Dr. Harout, The images are great! Now, I have to r...

Thanks Dr. Harout & Cogito, I'm keeping the Macro lens on my wish list. Haven't decided which one yet but it would be in the range of 90mm or 100mm. If sigma 150mm Macro is available in A-mount, that would definately be on top of my wish list. Minolta 200mm Macro is too expensive and hard to fin...

Hi, Minolta 100mm Macro and Tamron 90mm Marco are often labelled as "poor man" portrait lens in regard to 85mm f1.4 lens of Minolta or Carl Zeiss. I wonder if you already have a 85mm, do you still need Marco lens? Is the 85mm able to give me a sharp image for close distance object? Adding ...

Thank you very much for your advice. I will try that, once I get my A100 back from CCD cleaning.

Hi all, Unlike previous introduction post by members before me with many experieces from many camera, A100 is my first (D)SLR. Prior to this I had a compact Olympus C100. A big clumsy piece, drains battery pretty fast, which I handed over to my mom once I got my A100 second handed back in Nov 2006. ...

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I believe Minolta had a compact camera model Dimage Xi. Does it qualify?

Cheers.