New lense vs teleconvertors vs using a macro as a normal lense

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Sorry Colin, my comment was rather meant as humorous.The inverted commas should have include "filters".
John

 

[paulcontax]

To come back to the point :
If you want a real cheap solution : Try to find a good teleconverter (7 lenses ! - these are MUCH better than those with 4 lenses). The Kiron / Kenko MC7 are real good ones.
But this may only be fine for portraits cause it may be VERY soft wide open.
The 2.8/135 is a really very good lens for a good price - much better than any Zoom-lens and much better than anny solution with a teleconverter. And it's much cheaper even than the 2.8/85 ! (not to say than the 1.4/85 !)
The macro-Planar is much more expensive than all the others ! -but it's a really good lens (as the german ColorFoto-magazine tested it at 1:1 and infinity ).
If you even don't have the money for these lenses just try to get the affordable Tamron 2.5/90 macro-lens ! It's cheaper than the CZ-lenses but a really good lens !
This lens gave me much fun ! - even it's not THAT sharp wide open but stopped down to 5.6 it's great !
Paul