Hi folks, Could you please share your experience and maybe recommend me best lens for macrophotography? As in title i have eos80d camera so im looking most probably for ef-s lenses. Or it is worth to buy lens with another system and and use some adapter? Thx in advance, G.P.
There is a Macro 60mm from canon in the EF-S mount. I usually don't recommend EF-S mount unless you specifically are getting benefit from the purchase, such as saving money, or the comparable lens is a better performer than its EF mount counter part, or coverage. A good example of a good buy for many was the 10-18, it was really wide and had some zoom did not really have a comparable one in EF mount. Sure there were some 16-35 or 17 -40 but those were expensive L lenses and not even close in cost. EF-S will only really mount to a crop sensor body. The standard EF mount will work on crop bodies just as well as full frame and is my usual suggestion (all things being close). If you have mirror-less you can also adapt to that mount from EF as well, giving it a lot of versatility.
There are a couple of macro lengths that are common like, 50, 100, 180. I like the 100mm range and picked up a 100mm ef macro back in 07 before the L version came out, I haven't been able to talk myself into upgrading. The L is great but $1300 so it is out of many peoples price range, the non L is actually really good and about half that new. You can pick up used for maybe $300 i believe.
hi @johnsey. Thx for reply. Let me ask, why you said "I usually don't recommend EF-S mount". I have eos 80d so i have ef-s built in. Do you say that better to go with other mount and adapter?
The paragraph i wrote was more or less my issue with buying the mount. In short, the -S mount allowed them to make smaller cheaper lenses, because the sensor is smaller in your APC camera. My opinion in general was the price was not always a big enough difference if you wanted one of the nicer lenses. (Sure the kit zooms at $200 were in expensive, but nothing I would have invested in long term.) The good EF-s lenses weren't much cheaper and you can't use them on anything but your apc dslr. So it is a bit limiting. What if you want to go buy a 5d or an R next year? Example: 60mm Macro EFs $500 usable on your 80d only. EF 100mm Macro $600 mounts on all canon DSLRs and can be adapted to the whole mirror-less line. The other side of this is that EF lenses are no less functional so its not a matter of needing to mount an adapter, a regular EF lens works perfect on you 80d, and will work on any Canon DSLR, you would have to adapt it it to a r mount if you go buy a Canon R6 for example.
