I don’t have one, but I’ve used it. I don’t think you’d be getting much bang for your buck over the kit lens personally. At least as far as magnification. You have to buy an adapter to bring the 50mm to 1:1, and by then you’re in for almost the same amount as the 100 macro.
The 50mm definitely has better image quality than the 18-55, but I think you’ll be disappointed with the macros you get.
So… as expected… I’m gonna tell you to go for the 100mm macro. You can see lots of examples of my pics with this lens by clicking “view gallery” below my name in this post, also at
www.reef-life.com and
http://aquaphoto.blogspot.com
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