First Time Out With Olympus Macro

milster · 4 May 2016

Bit ring rusty with the macro stuff, first time out with my new Olympus macro lens, this was taken in bright sunlight with a small diffuser used to soften the light.....Looking forward to getting to grips with the in built focus stacking/bracketing with the Olympus system also..

Ladybird by Gary Miller, on Flickr

ChrisA · 4 May 2016

Good results from your new lens. Be interesting to see how you get on with the focus bracketing.

Neil Burnell · 4 May 2016

Looking good Gary, light looks great through the diffusion

Graham · 4 May 2016

Agree, that looks pretty good, always a rough time at the start but you will get there. Will you be using a flash and diffuser at some point ?
Sorry to hear about your rusty ring

G.K.Jnr. · 4 May 2016

Good start with your new kit Gary, looking forward to seeing some more results.

George.

milster · 4 May 2016

Cheers all.

Graham said:
Agree, that looks pretty good, always a rough time at the start but you will get there. Will you be using a flash and diffuser at some point ?
Sorry to hear about your rusty ring

Ha, yeah, will probably get something sorted at some point...Although I don't suppose it'll work too well with the focus bracketing

TimmyG · 4 May 2016

Great - looks very nice. Only slight complaint is the face seems a bit dark. A reflector could have helped but I suspect you would need to grow another arm to be able to use one comfortably.

Hippo_MC · 4 May 2016

Hmmm, I keep looking at the Olympus Macro lens. This tempts me more

milster · 5 May 2016

It's a good lens and can be picked up relatively cheap

alfbranch · 5 May 2016

The Zuiko 60 mm is a very nice lens when you get used to it though I find the MF is too slow. I use my Sigma 105 on E-M1 a lot of the time.

milster · 5 May 2016

alfbranch said:
The Zuiko 60 mm is a very nice lens when you get used to it though I find the MF is too slow. I use my Sigma 105 on E-M1 a lot of the time.

I did keep hold of my tamron 90mm but ended up selling it to fund the 60mm....from first impressions it seems okay for me, I don't tend to manual focus as such, just get close enough then move camera.

alfbranch · 5 May 2016

milster said:
I did keep hold of my tamron 90mm but ended up selling it to fund the 60mm....from first impressions it seems okay for me, I don't tend to manual focus as such, just get close enough then move camera.

I get on the with the 60mm by using back button focus and moving the camera though at times it is used in MF and just set to 1:1 see link for set up

https://flic.kr/p/CNkcWs