Then what's wrong with this Elgeet 38mm f/1.9 for $50?
<http://www.ebay.com/itm/ELGEET-LENS-38mm-f-19-ROCHESTER-NEW-YORK-/331933452486?hash=item4d48c688c6:g:b0cAAOSwH6lXQjtF>
or this 38mm f/1.8 for $25?
<http://www.ebay.com/itm/Elgeet-38mm-f1-8-Opto-Navitar-Telephoto-Lens-/252506961393?hash=item3aca9675f1:g:gc4AAOSwqfNXl6pi>
And regarding any of these C-mount lenses they're only designed for an
image circle for 16mm film. Even if they cover Super 16mm that's only
about 7.4 x 12.5mm whereas 35mm is 24 x 36mm and even 4/3 is 17.3 x
13.5mm. That's only about 40% of even a 4/3 sensor.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/25/2016 9:09 AM, Dean Hansen wrote:
Wayne H. posted:
"I came across this (totally by accident):
http://extreme-macro.co.uk/raynox-adapter-techniques/
Has anyone here had any experience with these Raynox adapters ?"
Well, not me, at least.
My preference is to use a lens designed to do macro if one wants to
do macro. Which is why I went with the OM system back in the '80s. The OM
38/2.8 macro lens is an entomologist's prayer answered. Wanna get closer?
Then the in-a-class-all-by-itself OM 20/2 is what you grab. Even closer,
and it's an Elgeet 7/2.5 regular 8mm movie camera lens from the '50s,
reversed. That trick is macro to the max, and on the cheap. Like $15
cheap. John Shaw's "Closeups in Nature", p 126-127, planted that bug in my
ear.
Gotta try focus stacking with that Elgeet sometime.
Prices for the 38/2.8 have softened some in the last few years. I've
seen them on ebay for $350-ish lately. Hellava deal, if you ask me. If
there ever were a lens designed specifically to do macro, and do it well,
this is it, hands down.
Dean
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