Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro Lens
Best lens for macro beginners

Enjoy macro shooting anytime with excellent quality reproduction and alightweight compact design. 
Thanks to an easy-to-useviewing angle of 96mm (35mm film equivalent), you can use this versatile macro lens for a wide range of shooting purposes - including small flowers and objects, portraits with blurred backgrounds, and landscapes.  The lens provides fast and quiet autofocusing with USM and full-time manual focus capability for a more detailed approach, as well as various additional functions that support high-level performance.

Lens construction:  12 elements in 8 groups
Close Focus: 0.2mm - infinite
Max magnification ration: 1x (life-size)
Filter size: 52mm

A thoroughly modern design that's optimized for select Canon EOS digital SLRs. Its angle of view is equivalent to a 96mm lens on a 35mm camera, with a floating optical system that can focus down to full life-size (1:1) magnification. Inner focusing, driven by a silent and powerful ring-type USM, means the lens' overall length never changes during focus. This lens is a wonderful multi-purpose lens that's equally at home shooting macro shots, portraits or available-light photos. Like all Canon EF-S Lenses, its use is restricted to the EOS 20D, EOS Digital Rebel and EOS Digital Rebel XT cameras (as of February 2005).

• 60mm macro lens with f/2.8 maximum aperture for EOS digital SLR cameras
• 25-degree angle of view is equivalent to 96mm lens on 35mm camera
• Floating optical system can focus down to life-size 1:1 magnification
• Silent and powerful ring-type ultra-sonic monitor (USM) for autofocusing
• Measures 2.9 inches in diameter and 2.8 inches long; 1-year warranty

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Canon Macro Lenses offer lots of ingenious features to help you turn good ideas into great shots - easily.
You can use a macro lens to capture images as you imagine them. Discover the pleasure of taking pictures with a Canon Macro Lens!

Benefits of USM and inner focus
Quiet, fast autofocus action.

Convenient for close-up situations.  When you want to photograph a small animal or an insect, it's important to get close quietly - without scaring the subject. Canon Macro Lenses with USM and inner focus let you photograph subjects with quiet, rapid autofocus.  You'll feel confident to approach many subjects that are sensitive to sound and motion in the big world around them.  You'll be able to get close and capture big, bold images of the small worlds!

Full time manual focus
Fine-tune the focus while in AF mode.

Useful at times like these!

Macro photography can only focus on a small area. The impression of a photograph changes dramatically by making a small shift in the point. Use autofocus, and then turn the focus ring. When you keep your attention on the viewfinder and fine-tune the focus, the difference in the finished photo will be immediatly apparent.

Useful info:  Magnification Ratio
This ratio expresses the relative size of the image, compared to the subject.

The larger the magnification ratio, the larger the subject appears.

The magnification ratio indicates the ratio of image size captured on sensor or film to the actual size of the subject. When using a magnification ratio of 1x, for example, the image captured on the sensor or film is the same size as the subject. The maximum magnification ratio represents the largest image size of a subject captured by the lens. The maximum magnification ratio for standard lens EF-S 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 II USM is 0.28x (at 55mm) while the maximum magnification the EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens is 1x.

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