G’day welcome back to my blog, Today I’ll cover my first L lens I got and the one I thought I’d be talking about last week my 100 f2.8 L Macro lens, When I first got this one I was a permanent fixture to my camera I sued it for everything, the difference from the old kit lens I had left over from my 350D was amazing, The quality of the images coming out of it was so much sharper and clear. It became my default lens for quite some time. The lens is a macro lens and it is the lens used on all my Mushroom shots, (You can check these out in my mushroom gallery under the portfolio tab) The closest I can put a subject to the lens is about the distance you can get when you use the lens hood, which I always use on this one, This is also one of the few lenses I don’t use any filters on. Some people say to use filters to protect the front element of the lens and on a lot of my other lens I do have filters either circular polarisers or skylight filers to remove the UV haze, but on the macro lens used now primarily for macro work I don’t have any filter and rely on the lens hood to protect the front element. It’s no longer the lens that’s permanently attached to my camera that’s the 70 – 200 these days so the lens is in the camera bag until I find mushrooms or something else to have a go at. As well as macro work the lens makes a get portrait lens and the f2.8 wide open gives a great effect, while on macro work the f32 stepped down size gives a great depth of field and still sharp images. I’ve taken a lot of images with this lens over 7600 shots and it’s probably my favourite lens though last week’s list showed more shots taken with the 70 to 200, but I’m putting that down to the use of burst mode on the wild life shots to boost the shot count on that one.  The lens is a great lens and I’d recommend it to anyone looking to get into macro or portrait work. One I’d certainly miss if I didn’t have this one in my bag.

Thanks for dropping by the weekends blog again will be how I got a shot and next weeks gear review from my bag will be the next lens I obtained and a great around walk around lens, the one I recommend if anyone asks me what one lens should I have.

Glenn.