I have both a 100mm micro and a standard 50, plus several extension rings. The other day I found a small spider (about the size of a dime, maybe a bit smaller), with a 50 you will focus in closest at about 1 foot, no closer, this will have the spider be really small on the photo, kinda see that it's something dark with legs but no more. With a 100mm macro, you will focus at around 1 foot away as well but you will see a spider with 8 black eyes, hairs sticking out of his back, fangs in front covered by hairy mouth covering flaps. Macro + extension rings, closest focus at around 1/2 foot, about 70% of the photo is the spider, you see the reflection of your camera in his largest two eyes. 50+ entension, minimum focal distance is like 3cm away, very inconvenient, because when you are sticking the camera right into the creatures faces, he tends to get frightened and runs off, the images with the 50+extensions came out poorly and barely in focus. In the end, a macro is a macro, there is just not much you can replace it with if you want quality, my macro is the old nikon fully manual micro 100mm, I love it because you can use extension rings on the old one, but not on the automatic new VR one.
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