macro v wide-angle
Until recently I had two macro lenses. That's lenses that are capable of taking macro shots, and not really small lenses... Anyway, they both had a full-frame camera equivalent length of around 100mm. One, a Laowa 65mm "ultra" macro is capable of reasonably extreme twice life-size magnification, while my Nikkor 105mm is a more standard 1:1 magnifier. This means you get life-size images on your camera's sensor. It's science - and not that important. Recently though, Fujifilm introduced a 30mm 1:1 macro lens; something quite different in the world of macro lenses in that it yields a reasonably wide field of view. What then, I hear you all cry, is the point of such a lens? I must admit that when it was first introduced, I had the same question ringing around my mind. (Yes, I am that boring.). After all, you'd need to get so close to your subject that firstly you'd be cutting out quite a lot of available light and secondly any insects would be rightly ter
