[daft_biker]

Originally Posted by inkista

Just to help out on the 60 side of the argument, you can fill a frame with a clover blossom....

Both lenses achieve the same magnification (1:1) at their minumum focus distances.....you could fill the frame the same way with either lens.

...although throw extension tubes into the mix and the 60mm gets the magnification advantage.

PS your spider is an orb weaver - it looks very much like Araneus diadematus but I can't see enough detail in the adominal pattern to be sure. A view of the palps would tell us what sex it was. In the UK we call them garden spiders but I think they have been introduced to the US via ports and have managed to spread out reasonably well.