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From: "Paul Farrar" <farrar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Quick question about bellows macro lenses
> > the 80/4 auto macro and its manual variant
> Manual yes, but very difficult. You have to get an extension of
> precisely the right length, and then you couldn't change the focus
> since it doesn't have the focus adjustment helical that the auto does.
> Auto, no, I believe.
Couldn't you use both of the 80mm on the telescoping extension tube to focus
to infinity? Unless even at the shortest setting (65mm? sorry no access to
the esif right now) it's too much extension. Then you could use the
adjustment of the tube to focus right?
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Andrew "frugal" Dacey
frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.tildefrugal.net/
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