Micro 4/3 Just fooling around with Macro

Jock Elliott

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I see that VenusLens has come up with a new 60mm 2x macro lens -- Laowa 60mm f/2.8 2X Ultra-Macro -- and that prompted me to fool around with the macro function on the Olympus 12-50 lens.

Push the MACRO button on the side of the lens, slide the zoom ring all the way forward (toward the objective end of the lens) and -- presto! -- you have an 86mm (e) macro lens.

Here's a wide angle snap of an ivy plant, focusing on the "elbow" in the middle of the frame:

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Here it is in macro:

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And here it is in macro with the 2x digital zoom engaged:

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One of the problems with handheld macro and razor thin depth of field is my own wobble tends to mess up the focus:

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Cheers, Jock
 
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