Macro Lens Kit
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Is Nikon D60 default kit lens good enough for taking dental clinical photo or I should buy Macro lens too?
I want to buy Nikon D60,my first motive is taking photo of my patients(I am prosthodontist) but I dont want to buy extra lenses!I want to know is it suitable for this purpose or not?
Actually I think it will work fairly well. The 18-55 is more macro capable than most non-macro lenses. The magnification of the 18-55 is an excellent 1:3 life size. Specialist macro lenses are 1:1, which is needed mostly for insects and the like. Many lenses that are not real macro lenses, but that has got "macro" in it's name, don't go much beyond 1:3 anyway. Even with a 1:1 lens, you would have photographed teeth and gums on 1:3. I'd say try 18-55 out first, because it might just work. Actually it might just work very well. Also since you've already paid for your 10 megapixels, and since you are not going to frame your pictures on very large prints against your living room, no one will notice after-shot cropping.
Adequate light is going to be a bigger concern, and a more expensive lens would not have solved all of that. Since it is short reach photography, and since the lens itself is short, the on-camera flash may just work. If not you may need to buy an external flash, preferably a ring flash. If you can get a ring flash of any kind (used even) it would be excellent. The R1 setup is excellent but expensive. Other ringflashes (such as the older SB-28) work as well for your purpose. You can also get a conventional external flash (such as the Sb-400) with a ring flash converter.The point is, if you do have funds, buy a ring flash, not an extra lens.
Whatever you decide to do, please do try your current setup first. . Not sure whether your 18-55 has VR or not. I think it does, but let's assume it does not. The most tooted 105 Vr macro lens is an excellent lens. But compared to an 18-55, you pay for the VR (which you don't need since you're going to use a flash), for the long reach (which you won't need unless your subjects are prone to biting) an for the 1:1 (again, which you won't use).
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