I missed that. Thanks for pointing this out to me again Moose.
38/2.8 and 20/2, I'll stop looking for the ptb and it's lenses and look for
these other two.
We are talking Zuiko/Olympus lenses, right? This isn't one of them is it?
Robot Schneider 38/2.8 Xenar Lens for Robot Cameras
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:35 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: ptb? plate
> Scott Peden wrote:
>> Thanks, I'll watch that,
> You do understand what this is? It is only needed for the two old,
> manual aperture macro lenses, 20/3.5 and 38/3.5.
>
> They were replaced for good reasons with the 20/2 and 38/2.8, neither of
> which needs this adapter plate.
>
> As Dean, the list entomologist, recently posted:
>
>> I've said it a couple times
>> before: if you want to photograph insects, the 38/2.8 OM macro lens is
>> unmatched. It's totally in a class by itself. Three examples of bug
>> shots using the 38/2.8 are at
>> http://s124.photobucket.com/albums/p15/Dean_Hansen/Aquaticinsects/.
>> While not exactly effortless, those shots would have been impossible
>> with the 38/3.5. I'd recommend holding off on buying the 38/3.5 at any
>> price and wait for a reasonable example of the 38/2.8 to come up. The
>> latter is ten times the lens, at least in terms of usability, of the
>> former.
> I assume similar things are true of the 20/2 vs. 20/3.5. In addition,
> those who have used them have said here that the 20/3.5 is either
> already already entering diffraction limited territory wide open or
> simply an inferior design to the 20/2 - not as sharp.
>
> So this may be something you don't need unless you already have one of
> the manual lenses.
>
> Moose
>
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