Macro with the Canon EF 40mm f2.8 pancake.

[David Morison]

Not having had the Canon EF 40mm f2.8 Pancake lens for very long and with the weather being too awful to do much outside, I thought I'd try a bit of macro using the Opteka 10x HD Macro attachment. The combination seems to be viable especially as it is short enough for the Canon 7D on-board flash to be used without any lens shadow.

Just a couple from a short session:

The inner sanctum of a Winter Pansy




A tiny spider with a body length of only 2.5mm



Fairly large crops and taken at f22, the spider could probably have been taken with a wider f stop.

David

[Pops]

Re: Macro with the Canon EF 40mm f2.8 pancake.

The Opteka made a very good job of them both

[John Perriment]

Re: Macro with the Canon EF 40mm f2.8 pancake.

Can't fault these, the 40mm is obviously a very sharp lens to start with.