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And another one.
No flash, no macro rings, just the basic camera + lens setup.
So yeah, depending on what you want to shoot, you might get away with buying non-macro gear that will be a lot cheaper and easier to use.
Of course, some people ITT probably wouldn't even consider these shots macro at all.
There are some really cool close-ups of smaller insects posted here, that would be very hard to achieve even when I finally get good with my current 100 RF.