[slakjaw]

I've decided to move up from point and shoot cameras to the world of SLRs. After way too much research, I went to the store intending to buy the Pentax Kx, long story short I walked out with the Nikon D5000 it just seemed like a better choice for a starter camera lots of Scene modes as well as fully manual… it came with two lenses an 18-55 and a 55-200. I am interested in playing around with some close up stuff and I want to get a macro lens. There is a Sigma 70-300 F/4-5.6 APO DG Macro local to me for ~150.00

So what would be a good Macro lens for this camera? I do not mind manual focus. In fact I kind of prefer it and have been shutting the auto focus off.