I agree with Jan, too many people end up buying a macro lens for casual close
up work with a set of close-up lenses or extension tubes will work fine. If
you use an auto-exposure body, it's fabulously easy, a manual-exposure body is
a bit harder.
But if the reason that "you" are looking at a macro is go satisfy
lens-acquiritis, then that's a totally different reason. :-))
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>Subject: [OM] Re: comparison: Olympus 100/2.8 and Tamron 90/2.5
> From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:29:42 -0800
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>>My thinking was that for table top photography (for ebay ads and puppies) I
>>need something that brings me much closer than the Zuiko 100 /2.8.
>
>Don't forget auto extension tubes!
>
>While some zooms don't perform well with tubes, most primes will do a great
>job for anything but the most demanding, flat-field work.
>
>I hate to see people "thrashing" their lens collection when a $30 set of tubes
>will solve their problems!
>
>When buying third-party tubes, the biggest thing to look out for is clearance.
>A number of Zuikos extend back far enough that some third-party tubes won't
>work.
>
>I have a set of Oly AND a set of Vivitar tubes that yield 63 different lengths
>to work with! (Of course, if I have to go over 65mm, I prefer the telescoping
>auto tube, which is an engineering marvel.)
>
>Some complain that tubes are hard to work with, but surely no worse than
>teleconverters.
>
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