Close-up Photography with a RF 100-500

[Dean Wilson]

Normally you don't equate a 100-500 with closeup photography, but when you add Meike MK-RF-AF1 11mm + 18mm extension tubes...you're fairly close to the subject, and in this case about one foot.

 

[Archibald]

Agree, and a good reminder to me to use mine. I have the 13 and 18 mm Meike set and forget I have them. Then I go out shooting birds but find bugs instead. The 100-500mm L does an amazing job all on its own, but those tubes would get it much closer.

 

[JohnN]

It certainly surprised me too when I first clicked on a good closeup and saw the lens, it's why I looked into it, sadly that got me to the price pretty quickly.

All that said I picked up the 100-400 a couple of days ago and it has an even shorter mfd, so I have some hope.

 

[Archibald]

It certainly surprised me too when I first clicked on a good closeup and saw the lens, it's why I looked into it, sadly that got me to the price pretty quickly.

All that said I picked up the 100-400 a couple of days ago and it has an even shorter mfd, so I have some hope.

For macro capability, it's the max magnification that is relevant, not the min focus distance. For the RF 100-500mm L, it is 0.33x (at 500mm). With both Meike rings, the magnification increases to approx. 0.5.

I don't know which 100-400 you have, but the EF II version has a magn of 0.31x whereas the RF 100-400 is 0.41x.

 

[JohnN]

Apologies, it's the RF version, you're right, I forgot about max mag.
I've the same tubes too, which I used on the RF 50mm, so very much looking forward to using on the new lens.