Micro 4/3 Leica 45mm Macro Elmarit

[Boyzo]

These are great the 2nd one is so lifelike
Did you use natural light Michael

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[Boyzo]

Good on you Bill its a great lens so light and easy to use
Looks like a Grevillea very hard to capture this beauty DOF is a problem
But anyways great saturated colour there

I sold my Oly 50mm f2 to buy this lens and don't regret it.

 

[bilzmale]

Bill, I didn't realize! Have you had it for a while Macro Image thread forum.

BB I've had it over 6 months now. The OIS is a bonus and the focus limiter is handy. John it is actually a bottle brush or Callistemon.

 

[MichaelChiara]

Hi Boyzo

All of the pictures were lit with flash except the first hover fly shot.
Thank you

 

[jbart]

I found the market place confusing too because panasonic/leica lenses exist in both 4/3 and m43 with very similar specs. I would hate to buy the wrong one!
Thanks again for posting those beautiful images. If $ no object Im sure I would have every panasonic leica lens for m43!!!

 

[MichaelChiara]

The lens I find the be a really nice portrait lens as well as a macro.

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[grebeman]

This is my first time using this lens in it's non macro mode.

Panasonic G1 f/5.6 1/125, iso 200

Panasonic G1 f/9 1/40, iso 200

Well pleased with the way it resolves the detail in the subject.

Images are uncropped and post processed in Bibble Pro 5 (including the rendering into black and white)


Barrie

 

[Ghosthunter]

I have seen shots from this lens before and it is just one of those superb lenses. It's on my loooooong shopping list!!!!!

 

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GF1 with the 45mm f2.8 Lumix Leica

 

[deirdre]

We went to the DeYong yesterday, and I took these two:

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Nicolas Africano • Untitled, 2006 • DeYoung by Deirdre Saoirse Moen, on Flickr

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[BBW]

Talk about a versatile lens! If I one were to have only one lens - this looks as though it could be the "it" lens. Seeing everyone's different photos from the incredible macro of your snail, Michael, and Jacobin your wonderfully cool close-up of that fish with is beak, as well as Barrie your black and whites, and now Deidre - yours - is a superb way to get a feeling for the types of photographs that work so well with this lens. Very thought provoking.

 

[Eric]

Michael,

I saw your lovely photos and only now have time to thank you for the posting and to ask a perhaps obvious question. Unless bees where you live are quite large, the images are more than "life size" (i.e. 1:1). Am I overestimating the size of the sensor, or are these cropped? If so, that makes the image quality even more impressive! Thanks again,

Eric

 

[MichaelChiara]

Thank you Eric for your kind words. The 45mm macro is capable of taking shots at 1:1 magnification, which I believe is 2:1 in 35mm format. The lens is able to focus closer on smaller objects and give more magnification. But the images I posted along with this spider picture are crops, which I agree with you, is even more impressive

 

[MichaelChiara]

Another portrait example using the 45mm macro elmarit. My daughter decorating our tree

 

[grebeman]

Winters flowers

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Panasonic G1 with 45mm f/2.8 Leica Elmarit iso 200, 1/25, f/11

Barrie

 

[MichaelChiara]

Beautiful

 

[deirdre]

Taken at the Hawaiian Tropical Botanical Gardens. I used manual focus.

 

[MichaelChiara]

wow stunning!!