Pergear 100mm F2.8 2x Macro Gallery
Dustin Abbott
January 13th, 2025
A good macro lens opens up a whole new world of photographic possibilities, but it also represents a very niche area of photography. Some people are born macro photographers; it’s their favorite type of photography. Others don’t mind dabbling in it, but aren’t so invested that they are interested in spending a thousand dollars on a lens that they will mostly use for one specific kind of photography. That’s what makes lenses like the Pergear 100mm F2.8 2x Macro interesting. They promise the ability to create those amazing macro images while not breaking the bank to do so. The Pergear 100M costs about $270, making it far more tempting to add to the casual macro photographer’s kit. But does cheap in price also mean cheap in quality? That’s what we are here to explore, which you can do in either my video review, linked below, reading the text review, or by just by enjoying the photos in the gallery below to get the “flavor” of the lens.
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Thanks to Pergear for sending me a review loaner of this lens. As always, this is a completely independent review. All opinions and conclusions are my own. *The tests and most of the photos that I share as a part of my review cycle have been done with the 45MP Nikon Z8, which I reviewed here.
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I like reviewing macro lenses in the winter, as macro photography is one of the easiest kinds of photography to do indoors. You can take ordinary household items and create extraordinary images by getting in close.
Several years ago I reviewed the Laowa APO 100mm F2.8 2X Macro, and in many ways the Pergear 100M seems like it was inspired by the lens. They both have a long slender profile (Laowa on left, Pergear on right), a similar focal length, and even a similar functional design where the focusing groups move obviously forward and backwards inside but without the external length changing.
The Laowa is more expensive but also much better optically, as we will see, but there’s a lot of physical similarities.
I like to utilize macro lenses for doing my product photography, as often there will be fine details that I want to capture than ordinary lenses won’t magnify enough. I’ve used the Pergear 100M for a number of the product photography sessions for lens reviews.
There’s some debate about which focal length is best for a macro lens, but suffice it to say that the 90-105mm range is probably the most popular, landing the Pergear 100M right in the sweet spot for macro photography.
Photos of the Pergear 100mm F2.8 2x Macro
Photos taken with the Pergear 100mm F2.8 Macro
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