anyone now of a good macro-focusing lens for the red?

[micah ginn]

thanks!

micah ginn

[Tim Morten]

There are a couple of macro lenses in the Zeiss ZF series (if you have a Nikon mount). Someone in a higher rent district will hopefully chime in with good PL options...

Cheers,
Tim

[Richard Foster]

I love my Nikon macros. Very Sharp with iris compensation for enlargement built in.

[JD Holloway]

...or check out Arri master diopters for the lenses you own...?

[Peter Arnold]

Tokina for Nikon 100mm Macro. Sharp right off the front lens. Did many beautiful shoots with it.

Peter

[Shane Kelly]

100mm zeiss zf is awesome and if you are looking for PL mount then the 100mm Makro compact prime or the 50mm Makro compact prime should be great. I believe that they should be out this month.

[Chuck Fryberger]

I just shot with the Sigma 28mm f 1.8 macro recently and I thought it was great. sharp at all apertures, nice close focus too.

http://chuckfryberger.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/FlyBug-532x299.jpg

[Richard Foster]

Nice, Chuck. The only note I'll add is that many times with macro you like a bit more distance bewteen you and your subject. It dpends on the application, but I find I like the 55, 105, and 200mm focal lengths.

[Eythan Holladay]

I am with Richard - I love my Nikon macros - I also picked up some bellows the other day that I need to mess with.

This was shot with the 60mm Micro @ 2K 100fps

http://motivatedmice.com/images/bug_60mm.jpg

[Stephen Pruitt]

We are using the Canon L-Series 100mm macro with the Birger mount and really like it a lot. . . much better than the NON-100mm macro version (which is a very fine lens for the money, but it does not focus as smoothly on rack pulls as does the L-Series version.

As a matter of fact, we just used it today pulling from an "insert" to a close shot of our actor.

Stephen

[Nils J. Nesse]

The 50mm and 35mm Red Pro Primes are 'almost' macro, with about 1:2 magnification. I was looking at some macro lenses, and noticed the RPP I already had did the same job.

[Peter Strietmann]

The best one, http://download.zeiss.de/cine/master_macro_experience.html

[Dwain Barrick]

Tilt & Shift Bellows Lens System by Shin Sugino & Horseman Co.

Have a look at this new product. We've had some great results on its initial testing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmsr6hyg0-Y&feature=player_embedded

Shin Sugino, owner of Sugino Studios in Toronto collaborated with Horseman Co. of Tokyo, Japan to create the latest Tilt & Shift Bellows Lens System. It will be available next year Spring/Summer at $4000 to $5000 USD.

[Bérenger Brillante]

Not the same but the Lomo OPF18 20-120 has really nice macro possibilities at every focal lenghts, with an adjustable macro ring near the mount.
A bit heavy and big though.