Also take a look at
http://www.kalmeijer.net/main.html
His photo's convinced me the short macro lenses could be a *LOT* of fun. I
took some photos of a tick that I pulled out of my son's belly. It was
amazing to see all of the barbs on the ticks snout. I never printed the
image nor enlarged it in an attempt to see how sharp the photo is. At normal
sizes it seems plenty sharp.
There were a number of posts a year or two ago. One of the points I
remember was that you don't want to stop down too much. You will be
diffraction limited fairly quickly.
The lenses take skill (or in my case a lot of patience) to get focused
correctly. Racking a bellows out to its full extent with a short lens was an
odd experience. I ended up focusing by moving the camera. I also found that
my manfronto pro tripod with the nifty horizontal boom wasn't stiff enough
to damp the vibrations. I think the lenses could give some pretty unusual
images of common things such as flowers. I haven't put one on the camera and
gone looking for targets. The lenses are like the super telephoto's in that
they get left at home unless I go looking for targets. Except with the short
macros I really have to look for the targets because they are so small I
don't normally see them.
-jeff
>From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] Re: reasonable price?
>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:35:35 +0100
>
>
>I can't answer you directly James, but would assume that they don't feature
>in the lens tests because their intended use, and their design
>characteristics, don't readily lend themselves to testing alongside
>conventional use lenses. But I can offer a couple of references which may
>put things in perspective.
>
>First Bjørn Rørslett has some stunningly different approaches to nature
>photography (and a pretty gung-ho approach to making lenses do what he
>wants, possibly including monkey wrenches) and his page here
>http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_spec.html gives subjective views of a
>variety of specialist lenses, mainly Nik*n, but including Zuiko Macro. Here
>is an example of his work using a Zuiko 38/2.8 Macro on a Nik*n F5 body
>http://www.naturfotograf.com/casshyp.html (Did I mention that he modifies
>his own equipment? See here http://www.naturfotograf.com/28pc.html for an
>eye-opening project, especially if you want to try macro for real. And
>there are good examples of both IR and UV images on his site too.)
>
>Second, Olympus VisionAge magazine carried a few articles on the macro
>range, and you could look at Issues 1, 7 and 8. The first is certainly
>downloadable from Peter Gilbert's site http://www.deakin.edu.au/~peterg/ -
>but it is 10MB! You could do worse than review the macrophoto manual
>available in the eSIF.
>
>--
>Piers
>
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