Very frustrated, please help

[brettinteriors]

I am trying to make the right choice here and unfortunately it would be an expensive mistake if I choose incorrectly. I have a stock nikon 18-105. Touching the glass at 105mm(as a test for magnification of a new lens, looks bad on mine) I am still too far away from many of my corals to get a real macro effect. It would fill most of the screen but not really up close.

Basically I am at a

100mm macro lense

or a 70-200f2.8 sudo macro zoom

 

[Misled]

For shooting corals in a tank, the only real choice is a macro lens. The "sudo" macro won't be able to get as close as the macro. For Nikon, either the Nikon 105mm, the Tamron 90mm, or the Sigma 105mm usually are at the top of the list. In the order posted.

 

[jroovers]

for shooting corals in a tank, the only real choice is a macro lens. The "sudo" macro won't be able to get as close as the macro. For nikon, either the nikon 105mm, the tamron 90mm, or the sigma 105mm usually are at the top of the list. In the order posted.

+1

 

[brettinteriors]

It seems like the macro is the way to go. Even if I cant zoom past the 1xx range. I can crop the picture and still get the detail I want. Thankfully I am a photoshop guru.

 

[JaYbIrD1969]

It seems like the macro is the way to go. Even if I cant zoom past the 1xx range. I can crop the picture and still get the detail I want. Thankfully I am a photoshop guru.

Zacly!

 

[Misled]

That can be camera dependant when it comes to Nikon. If you have a camera with a CCD sensor, higher ISO's tend to show rather drastically. Start cropping and it just gets worse. The grainyness really will begin to show. I never shoot above 400 on my D200's. If you have a camera with a CMOS sensor, crop away!!!!

 

[brettinteriors]

Yep it's CMOS

 

[jroovers]

That can be camera dependant when it comes to Nikon. If you have a camera with a CCD sensor, higher ISO's tend to show rather drastically. Start cropping and it just gets worse. The grainyness really will begin to show. I never shoot above 400 on my D200's. If you have a camera with a CMOS sensor, crop away!!!!

Yep it's CMOS

Based on my understanding, it isn't just CMOS versus CCD sensors that counts, it is also sensor size... a full frame Canon body/sensor will typically have better noise control and greater IQ than an APS-C sensor with a 1.6 crop factor - but you'll lose the extra "theoretical" reach of the crop factor sensor, which is handy for cropping shots in certain situations, such as macros.