You are absolutly right, many zooms do focus very close. My experience
with f2.8 zooms (only a few) is that they focus closer than the average
Zuiko zoom. None seem to have any "close focus" feature as many "lesser"
zooms do. Most wide angle to mid range Zuiko zooms seem to focus in the
.8 meter range. My Zuiko 35-70 f3.5-4.5 with it's 'close focus' feature
will focus to .45 meters. My Tokina ATX 35-70 f/2.8 focuses to .6
meters, and my Tokina ATX 24-40 f/2.8 focuses to .4 meters. The Zuiko
35-80 f/2.8 will focus to .6 meters as well. (62x41cm. at 35mm and
31x20cm.at 80mm) For comparison purposes the Zuiko fixed 35 focus to .3m
(21x14cm) and the 24s focus to .25 meters (23x15cm). There are some
zooms that have very good close focus abilites, but in general if close
focus ability is important a fixed focus or macro lens is your best bet.
Jim Couch
Moose wrote:
>I almost said the same thing. then I realized several of my zooms will
>focus to 1:4, 14.4x96cm. A couple focus into serious macro range, 1:1.5
>or so, ~4.1x2.8 cm. Certainly true that most Zuiko zooms don't focus as
>close as primes, although the Zuiko 65-200 goes to 1:3.3. And certainly
>true that many zooms don't focus as close as primes. Especially true of
>fast zooms, none of the 2.8 ones I know of focus very close.
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