Canon MP E - macro lens - 65 mm : 6 results priced between £600.00 and £1,500.00

This is the first macro photo lens designed to achieve a high magnification greater than 1x without additional accessories. It is ideal for small subjects. The newly designed optical formula and UD-glass elements suppress chromatic aberrations which become apparent at high magnifications. For flash photography, Macro Ring Lite ML-3 can be attached to the lens.

I have used this lens to take thousands of photographs of in-situ, live invertebrates. As they were live and moving I have never used a tripod, but have used the camera on manual setting and relied on the Canon twin flash (or separate flash on a slave if front lighting creates too flat an image) in order to freeze the subject. Many of the results were out of focus - but that's the advantage of digital photography, you can take several shots and then review what you have immediately. One disadvanatage...

If you fancy a bash at extreme macro, then this is the lens for you. Most "proper" macro lenses offer 1:1 reproduction, which means that the image of an object on the sensor is the same size as in real life. You can fill the frame with a postage stamp. But the unique Canon MP-E 65mm starts at 1:1 and goes all the way up to an amazing 5:1. At that magnification, you can fill the frame with an object that's only 4mm across. Using this lens is deceptively simple. There's no autofocus. You just adjust...

Canon MP-E65 F2.8 1-5x Macro Lens (Canon p/n 2540A011AA)This unique macro lens is designed to achieve a high magnification greater than life size (1.0X) without the need for additional accessories. A unique manual-focus lens designed exclusively for macro shooting The MP-E65mm f/2.8 1-5X is ideal for very small subjects, capable of capturing subjects at up to 5x life size. The lens design contains UD-glass elements to suppress chromatic aberrations which often become apparent at high magnifications...

This is the first macro photo lens designed to achieve a high magnification greater than 1x without additional accessories. It is ideal for small subjects. The newly designed optical formula and UD-glass elements suppress chromatic aberrations which become apparent at high magnifications. For flash photography Macro Ring Lite ML-3 can be attached to the lens.