I also agree with Jim Decker's (Backscatter) statement that the Sony 90mmm macro matted with the Sony A1 camera is the best macro I have ever used and between use we have used a bunch. As the camera bodies improved I moved to focusing through the full range unless I set out to do nothing but 1:1 or greate macror. When I first started using the 90mm on A7 II and A7R II I used focus limiting because the lens hunted less. I have tired the Canon 100mm macro IS with Sigma and Metabones adapters on Sony A7R IV and A1 and unlike Backscatter I found no noticeable difference on A7R IV and the 90 was clearly faster on A1. It is however a bit slower than the Sony 90mm. The new Sigma looks excellent and has some upsides with a lower cost, the ability to be used with tele converters up to X2 and excellent image quality. Lens development has changed dramatically since 2015 but the 90mm still holds it own on many levels. The Sony FE 90mm macro was released in early 2015 so is a bit old compared to current macro lenses for mirrorless cameras from Canon, Nikon, Sigma and others. Even more impressive is that when the camera locked onto the head of a goby or blenny, the focus square then switched to a smaller square and tracked the eyeball! It still did this even with a wet mate macro lens which is just about the worst autofocus test for a camera ever. The tracking is very impressive, locking onto the head of coral gobies and blennies I was shooting. The lens focuses quickly and accurately without the massive focus hunting on previous models. The new autofocus system with the Sony 90mm macro is now the best autofocusing macro lens I have ever used. Even with the Sony a7R IV ’s improved autofocus over previous Sony cameras yielded great results for wide angle type shooting, macro with the Sony 90mm still suffered from such sluggish performance and focus hunting that made autofocus in all practicality, useless. A Canon 100mm IS with a lens adapter like the Sigma MC-11 outperformed the Sony 90mm for focus speed. Previously on Sony α series cameras, focusing with the Sony 90mm macro lens was so slow as to be unusable for macro shooting. In practical use, the AF tracking on the Sony a1 was even more impressive. However, the specs only tell one part of the story.
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