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I went out this evening to test my G5 with Olympus 60mm macro and extension tubes, and KX800 twin flash. I wanted to test this setup with the addition of close-up lenses for very small subjects like springtails. The test was not successful. I found hardly any very small subjects, and with those few I did find, and with larger subjects, In terms of speed to acquire the subject and frame the shot, and get the subject in focus with the DoF placed where I wanted it, I found the usability nowhere near as good as with close-up lenses on the 45-175. If the image quality had been stellar then I might be willing to trade this off against the loss of shots from poor usability, but the image quality was generally not exceptional.
However, I disturbed a small ? crane fly. It wandered around for a short while and I tried to track it and photograph it as it moved around. Most of the images were out of focus, but I quite liked these. I didn't use a close-up lens for these, so it was the 60mm macro and 26mm extension tubes. I suspect this gives a two stop decrease in effective aperture (anyone know how to calculate this for micro four thirds?), which would mean that the aperture of f/8 I used for these would have been an effective aperture of f/16.
There are 1300 pixel high versions in this album at Flickr.
#1
1065 1 2017_01_20 P1190162_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2
1065 2 2017_01_20 P1190170_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3
1065 3 2017_01_20 P1190174_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4
1065 4 2017_01_20 P1190176_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5
1065 5 2017_01_20 P1190178_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6
1065 6 2017_01_20 P1190195_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
However, I disturbed a small ? crane fly. It wandered around for a short while and I tried to track it and photograph it as it moved around. Most of the images were out of focus, but I quite liked these. I didn't use a close-up lens for these, so it was the 60mm macro and 26mm extension tubes. I suspect this gives a two stop decrease in effective aperture (anyone know how to calculate this for micro four thirds?), which would mean that the aperture of f/8 I used for these would have been an effective aperture of f/16.
There are 1300 pixel high versions in this album at Flickr.
#1
1065 1 2017_01_20 P1190162_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2
1065 2 2017_01_20 P1190170_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3
1065 3 2017_01_20 P1190174_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4
1065 4 2017_01_20 P1190176_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5
1065 5 2017_01_20 P1190178_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6
1065 6 2017_01_20 P1190195_DxO RAW01a100 SP7 LR6 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr