Yaayyy! I found the money from the IRS in my account this morning, so I zipped payment over and the camera is now on a FedEx truck/plane headed my way! (I splurged on 2-day shipping) However, I suppose that means I won't get it until Monday anyhow, because I don't think they deliver on Saturday. Not sure, never thought to check before. But anyhow...it's on its way!

Quote Originally Posted by Misfit View Post
When getting a macro lens, pay close attention to the ratio given. I know it's the case with film (which is what I shoot, lol i'm crazy and still in love with playing in the chemicals) so I'd assume so with digital. :] i. e. if you were to shoot a penny with a 1:1 macro lens, you would end up with a negative where the penny was the actual size on the negative as it is in real life. A 1:2 is half the size, etc etc.

I can't remember where the cutoff is for when a macro lens becomes silly and rather pointless, but as close to 1:1 as you can get! :] Macro=<3

And- you can always swap lens, BUT it changes some settings. I can't remember, but it throws exposures off a little bit if you're going to go full-manual.
Yes, if I go for the macro (leaning more and more that direction) the one I'm looking at is a 1:1.

I did 35mm film and developing in high school....it was a lot of fun! But I get neurotic with film cameras because I always hated "wasting" film on bad pictures. Nothing worse than shooting rolls of film on some trip and being so excited to get them developed and paying out the nose to develop several rolls of film...and end up with three or four half-way decent pictures. I was very happy to leave those "good ol' days" behind!