jimtutwiler50 Loc: Los Angeles

Go get a Sony mirrorless with Zeiss lenses made for them. The Sony 50 2.8 macro is great and also.

RogerN

With Canon M50 ?

ggab Loc: ?

RogerN

Thanks George, thank you for your detailed, valuable and helpful info. Yes, the discounts are important to me too. Thanks Roger

RogerN

I like your idea...... thanks

RogerN

Thanks SuperflyTNT, I usually take a quick pic of my collected rock specimens, in the field, to reference the location where they were found. However, when I get home, I clean up the rock and do my in-house photography using my tripod.

RogerN

Thank you, jchase7018, my plans for the M50 is the 15-45 kit, a macro and my EF-S lens I already own. Yes, I plan to get within a few inches of my rock specimens. That distance would be affected by other factors too.

RogerN

The $200 is at Best Buy..................damn that is expensive .....

RogerN

WOW.... just love those pics......the red colors, etc. And, this done with the Kit lens ..............Very nice......

RogerN

Which Sony mirrorless are you using? I was thinking Sony when I go into full frame....... later this year ...

RogerN

Thanks, yes the OEM is rather smart .....

ggab Loc: ?

The 3rd picture was sooc, no editing at all with the kit lens.
The first 2 had minor shadow or highlight touch up only.
I did shoot raw, so I had to convert to jpg. I used Canon's free DPP4 software to do that.

Thank You.

RogerN

Thanks, yes I have the DPP4 when I had my Canon 80D ........ very good and free ...

markjay

Buy the Canon adapter ! The only choice. It will ensure all electronic compatibility. I have heard some non-Canon adapters will not properly link electronic focusing, etc. ...

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

A 35mm macro lens will have very little working distance between the front of the lens and the subject, at full 1:1 magnification.

Personally I'd look for a longer focal length. The EF-S 35mm Macro sells for $300, and to use it on an M-series camera you'll need and adapter costing $60 to $160... so let's say a total cost roughly $400 or more. I'm going to assume you want to keep close to that.

Venus Laowa 65mm f.2.8 Macro comes in EF-M mount, so no adapter would be needed. It's an unusually high magnification lens, able to do 2:1 or twice life size, and costs $400. It's a fully manual lens... both focus and aperture. That will make it slower to work with and you'll need to set the camera to "shoot without lens" in the menu. That's because the camera won't "recognize" the lens, won't know it's there... And you'd be limited to using M, Av AE or M + Auto ISO AE modes.

[b]7artisans 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens is another that's available in EF-M mount. It's a compact, 1:1 capable macro that only costs $159. It's also manual focus, manual aperture only. (Same "shoot without lens" needs to be set.)

If you would consider used, find one of the early Tamron SP 90mm f/2.5 or f/2.8 "Adaptall2" Macro lenses from the 1980s or 1990s. These are interchangeable mount, manual focus lenses. There are Adaptall mounts available for EF-M. The earlier f/2.5 models are 1:2, half life size capable (#52B, 1998 and #52BB, 1996), though there is a matched extension tube available for them that allow full 1:1 (or generic macro extension tubes can be used). The f/2.8 version came later (#72B, 2006) and is less common, but is able to do full 1:1 without need for any extension. The two earlier models are pretty easily found for under $100. The later f/2.8 model can cost up to $150. They may come with almost any type of bayonet mount installed, but an Adaptall to EF-M replacement mount for it can easily be found for around $20. (Inexpensive Adaptall mounts are available to fit these lenses to virtually any SLR, DLSR or mirrorless camera and are easily interchanged.)

If you prefer, there are any number of EF/EF-S mount macro lenses that can be used via an adapter. Some of the best are from Canon themselves.... Their EF-S 60mm f/2.8 USM ($349), EF 100mm f/2.8 USM ($599) and EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM ($899) all are excellent, 1:1 capable, with autofocus and full aperture control. Via an EF/EF-S to EF-M adapter they will work as well on an M-series camera as they do on the DSLRs. The two 100mm lenses can optionally be fitted with a tripod mounting ring (costing approx. $150 to $170).

Personally I don't think there's much difference between the EF/EF-S to EF-M adapters. They're actually pretty simple: two bayonet mounts with a tube in between and a few electronic contacts. Canon's OEM costs $150, while the virtually identical Vello, Viltrox, Fotodiox and some others all cost around $40 or less. (Not to be confused with Metabones Speed Booster and any number of adapters to fit a wide variety of other lens mounts onto EF-M cameras: Canon FD, Nikon F, Pentax P/K, Pentax M42, Olympus OM, Konica K/AR and many others.)

I would be a little concerned about third party, autofocus, macro lenses (Tokina 100mm, Tamron 90mm, Tamron 60mm, Sigma 70mm, Sigma 105mm, etc.) I've seen reports of some autofocus problems using them on M-series camera via an adapter. I think one of the solutions that works a lot of the time is to turn of Continuous AF in the camera. That seems to only work with Canon lenses.