70-300 mm FE lens for Macro?

[DrJohn]

I'm planning to buy the Sony 70-300 mm FE lens for wild life photography. I heard it works well as a macro lens too. Has anyone tried it for macro photography?

John

 

[sixzeiss]

At least on paper its going to be OK. The 0.31x reproduction ratio is probably good enough. The Sony macro lens has reproduction ration 1.0x (3 times larger), but for many not too small things, 0.31x would do the trick.

I use a Zeiss Milvus 50mm macro lens, many times at 1:3 (0.33x) ratio, and I find it to be good.

[DrJohn]

28 minutes ago, sixzeiss said:

At least on paper its going to be OK. The 0.31x reproduction ratio is probably good enough. The Sony macro lens has reproduction ration 1.0x (3 times larger), but for many not too small things, 0.31x would do the trick.

I use a Zeiss Milvus 50mm macro lens, many times at 1:3 (0.33x) ratio, and I find it to be good.

Great to know.

thanks,

John

[thefsb]

Yes.

There's [ample evidence](https://www.flickr.com/photos/lescatalpas/) that it works very well for close-ups, despite not being technically a macro lens.

If you don't need a fast lens then this one is pretty versatile.

[Lescatalpas]

There is an extensieve topic on this lens in the full frame lens chapter. 

[DrJohn]

5 hours ago, Lescatalpas said:

There is an extensieve topic on this lens in the full frame lens chapter. 

Whoops. I thought that is where I posted this. I made a mistake.

John