I can't answer you directly James, but would assume that they don't feature
in the lens tests because their intended use, and their design
characteristics, don't readily lend themselves to testing alongside
conventional use lenses. But I can offer a couple of references which may
put things in perspective.
First Bjørn Rørslett has some stunningly different approaches to nature
photography (and a pretty gung-ho approach to making lenses do what he
wants, possibly including monkey wrenches) and his page here
http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_spec.html gives subjective views of a
variety of specialist lenses, mainly Nik*n, but including Zuiko Macro. Here
is an example of his work using a Zuiko 38/2.8 Macro on a Nik*n F5 body
http://www.naturfotograf.com/casshyp.html (Did I mention that he modifies
his own equipment? See here http://www.naturfotograf.com/28pc.html for an
eye-opening project, especially if you want to try macro for real. And
there are good examples of both IR and UV images on his site too.)
Second, Olympus VisionAge magazine carried a few articles on the macro
range, and you could look at Issues 1, 7 and 8. The first is certainly
downloadable from Peter Gilbert's site http://www.deakin.edu.au/~peterg/ -
but it is 10MB! You could do worse than review the macrophoto manual
available in the eSIF.
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: James Michael King [mailto:jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 October 2004 14:08
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: reasonable price?
> If you see an affordable 38 f2.8 or 20 f2 grab them. They are seldom
> available and rarely affordable. They turn your OM into a microscope.
>
have you any experience of them? they do not feature in the olympus om lens
tests and I was wonderring about their quality...
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