You could mount the tube on the camera using the M-1 adapter but you
can't mount the DZ 45-150 lens on the tube. He'd have to use an OM
mount lens. But nothing wrong with that. Speed and auto everything
isn't exactly a requirement for most macro photography... unless you're
chasing high speed, crud infested lady bugs around on the desk top.
Chuck Norcutt
Darin wrote:
>
>>Tim Randles wrote:
>>
>>
>>>if I am understanding this right, if I use my 45-150 evolt kit lens,
>>>and a 100mm tube, I could photograph the fractal -like patterns on
>>>flower petals? microscopic kind of photography?
>>
>>You've got the right idea but as far as I know Olympus doesn't make a
>>tube longer than 25mm which is made for the 50mm macro to get to 1:1.
>
>
> Though I know it's not the common use, but couldn't you use the telescopic
> auto tube 65~116? According to the eSIF, "This unit can be used with any
> normal OM lens between 50mm and 200mm". Might be worth consideration.
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