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Re: [OM] 80/4.0 Macro resolving power?

Subject: Re: [OM] 80/4.0 Macro resolving power?
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 21:34:11 +1000
Dawid,

I don't have the numbers but I happened to be using mine tonight:

E-510, OM Bellows, Zuiko Auto Macro 80mm + 170mm CU lens, ISO 400, 1/125,
small direct flash at about 60cm & 45 degrees.
Only resize and sharpen of jpg.
Subject is the back of a teaspoon, the "P" in EPNS is ~1.5mm high.

Minimum bellows extension ~50mm between flange on body and flange on lens,
f16.

http://lrh.structuregraphs.com/images/20091001-A-002-a.jpg


Maximum bellows extension ~210mm, f11 (Flash bumped up to full power for
this one)

http://lrh.structuregraphs.com/images/20091001-A-011-a.jpg



...Wayne

Wayne Harridge
http://lrh.structuregraphs.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dawid Loubser [mailto:dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 October 2009 4:52 PM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: [OM] 80/4.0 Macro resolving power?
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Just for interests sake, does anybody know what the actual resolving
> power
> of the 80/4.0 Macro is at the various apertures? I am hoping it's good
> enough to be
> basically diffraction-limited, and by reputation it's possibly the
> finest 1:1
> lens that covers a full 35mm frame in the world (the Ultra Micro
> nikkors are amazing,
> there are models that are diffraction-limited at f/1.2 and even f/1.0,
> but almost none
> of these exotic models do 1:1 or cover a 35mm frame, and some of them
> only do specialised
> wavelengths of light (UV, etc).
> 
> I know the 80/4.0 is bloody good, but I would like to satisfy my
> boyish curiosity with
> some technical information on just "how" good it is.
> 
> Anybody?
> 
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