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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1688574, member: 27832&quot;]It&#039;s a great lens, to be sure. But the vanilla 100mm macro is optically stellar as well, and I&#039;m unconvinced about the stabilization features on the L macro -- to get decent coin shots, you&#039;re going to be using a copystand or tripod anyhow, probably with mirror lockup and/or remote release, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>For the money, I&#039;d be more tempted to go with the MP-E, an <i>extremely</i> specialized macro lens that lets you go from 1:1 to 5:1 magnification. At 5:1, I think a dime&#039;s date would more than fill your field of view, and you&#039;d be getting pretty close to the theoretical maximum resolution possible with a visible-light camera (wavelength ~= pixel size). It&#039;s not a lens to start out with, but I&#039;d love to move up to it one day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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