In conjunction with my other thread, I will be in the market in about a month for a macro lens to complete my photography getup. I just purchased the Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 lens.
Here is my question - What sort of macro lens do you prefer? Is there a reason for your preference? I understand that there are some lenses specific to the subject you concentrate on most, but for a person in my situation that shoots whatever I lay my eyes on, I am wondering if that kind of lens is for me really and the differences on some of them is lost on a newbie like me.
I am really interested in something like this 17-50mm f/2.8 lens since I don't think I'll be missing much between the 50mm and 70mm. Here is the Sigma version and the Sony version . . just for comparison sake.
The f/xxx in the poll is a fixed number f-stop, no ranges.