Saturday, 10 August 2019

tamron - Macro lens: IF or Extending Barrel?


I'm an aspiring photographer of fish. So the implication is that, I have a segemented working distance:



  • 1st Between me and the aquarium, that I can adjust

  • 2nd The breadth of my aquarium


The 2nd is sadly a limiting point, and this has me asking, is an Internal Focusing macro lens a bigger benefit for me?



The Tamron 90mm's flagship version has IF, but the older, cheaper one doesn't. But they both achieve 1:1 at relatively the same distance. So is there really any impact?




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