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It's a friendly wasp in his nest this is the nearest I could manage to get there for a profile photo.f/9 | 1/125s | iso200
Canon T1i with Canon MP-E 65mm @ 3x . 580 EX II flash bracket mounted with a LumiQuest Mini SoftBox diffuser near the lens and silver bounce at right. Focus stack from two handheld images.
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So perfectly clear again. 
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Last week received the MP-E 65mm
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congratulation
before you got the mpe 65 you used a lot of equipment. like extension tubes and the raynox 202 and 250 
I also have ext. tubes and zhe raynox dcr 250.
I want to ask you: is the mpe much better than to photograph with this equipment?
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The 100mm and two Raynox are great gear and I was hardly pressed to find something better.
I never used tubes, was always the 100mm, with the raynox DCR-250 go to 2:1 and with the MSN-202 from 3:1 to 4:1 in the end of ring.
The MP-E allowed more versatility in composition, going from 2:1 to 3:1 without need of changing adapters, I needed to do less raw adjustments in color and sharpness in the MP-E shoots than with the 100mm + Raynox.
You could compare photos of the same bugs with MP-E and 100mm + Raynox and make your own opinion
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Of course there are focus and composition diferences but the subject is the same.
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honestly the different in sharpness is not soo big.
When I saw both photos without knowing what was taken with the mpe, I canΒ΄t dicide.
but in other shots like the ant the sharpness is really impressiv!
When you go to 5x, what is than the distance to the object?
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About working distance and more info you could consider interesting I think one of the most compreensive reviews of MP-E is this one:
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okay thank you
ah their it is:
1X at f2.8 has a DOF of 0.396mm at a working distance of 101mm (4 inches)
1X at f16 has a DOF of 2.240mm at the same working distance
5X at f2.8 has a DOF of 0.048mm at a working distance of 41mm (1.6 inches)
5X at f16 has a DOF of 0.269mm at the same working distance
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Now the bad part:
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After read this we notice that the sensor who take the best of MP-E is the 10MP APS-H, but only in very highter level cameras, would love a rebel or a XXD with the low pixel density sensor.
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oh okay.
Than a camera with a low pixel density sensor is better for the mpe than a 18mp APS-C sensor(e.g. Canon 550D)?
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A 10 MP APS-H sensor surely will avoid diffraction better, than a APS-C 18 MP, but comparing the sensor of among APS-C cameras based on pixels is not so easy, as new sensor technology could come with highter densities so is subject to testing.
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