To a degree I agree with Doris, I have one Olympus OM brand close up
lens in 55mm, and they also made them in 49mm. Doris's comments are
well taken although I much perfer my 50mm f3.5 or my Tamron 90mm f2.5,
but I have the choice.
Rand E.
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>*- DORIS FANG -* wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Richard Dale wrote:
>
> > The close up lenses aren't much good really.
>
> This is only true for the "cheapies". I have used Nikon CU lenses
> with great success. I followed John Shaw's book, and these things work
> amazingly well --- are far lighter than ext. tubes, and cost you
> no light loss to speak of. With the proper filter adapters, they would
> work on the OM stuff.
> *= Doris Fang =*
>
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