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Re: [OM] Opinions wanted on V*v*ar 2x Macro Focusing Teleconvert

Subject: Re: [OM] Opinions wanted on V*v*ar 2x Macro Focusing Teleconverter
From: "Marco" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 21 Apr 98 20:33:41 +0200
On Lun, 20 apr 1998 17:56, Rand E. Tomcala <mailto:rtomcala@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote: 
> recently was able to purchase one of these at a fairly reasonable
>price and it seems to be a good concept.  Does anybody have any
>experience with this item and your opinions of it.  The concept of the
>macro focusing is so nice that, if the optics are poor, it could become
>a short variable auto-extension tube.
>Rand E.
>

Oh well, it is a versatile thing:

1. It is a TC. 

2. It is an extension tube, continuously variable.

3. Optics are good. 

4. Any TC gives you a double x factor at the closest focus lenght, but this
"macro" TC gives you even more magnification.

5. DOF increases as the f/ settings are, in fact, doubled... (you can get
f/64 with some lenses) that is you get the same DOF as the lens would give
at the same f/ aperture, but with double magnification!

There is a series of concomitant reasons that make sense of a "macro TC
concept", so to say. There is a Kenko brand one, too...

You can build a pure Zuiko one with a 65-116 tube plus a 2X-A... but it is
bulkier, less compatible and far more costly!

Marco





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