Philip (et.al. interested in macrophotography or photomicrography),
have a look at a webpage of one of another Dutch photo-enthusiast by
name of Willem-Jan Markerink:
http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/microlen.htm
You will learn a lot about available macro/micro lenses.
BTW, his whole website is full of valuable information on optics (and
batteries...) - as has been said earlier on this list.
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL.
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000 02:13:30 -0800, Phillip Franklin
<pfranklin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Alex,
>
>I'm more interested lenses with greater than 1:1 magnification. Comparable OM
>lenses are the
>38mm macro, 20mm macro. I don't think Canon or Nikon are offering these type
>lenses, however
>they are still available from Oly. Also has anyone seen the Macrophotographic
>Equipment
>PMT-35? Even with the 80mm macro it will magnify over 10x. The PMT-35 coupled
>with the 20mm
>will magnify over 16x. I have been able to get 20x using the 20mm + bellows
>and a 2x
>telecoverter. The quality is quite remarkable. I mostly used the 38mm with
>bellows when
>shooting microprocessors (which I have not done professionally for almost 3
>years). The
>Zuiko Macro 20mm/2.0 is one of the most remarkable pieces of glass I have ever
>used.
>Unfortunately I need to find more things to shoot with it.
>
>So maybe my question should be: are there any lenses beside the Zuiko Macro
>38mm/2.8 and
>Zuiko Macro 20mm/2.0 in this greater than 1x range. If not then I would
>suspect that Oly
>will not retire these lenses. Right now it appears as if they own this market
>at these
>magnifications. I know of some high power high quality video lenses in this
>range can cost
>several thousands of dollars. An again I don't think anything comes close to
>the 20mm.
>
>Phillip Franklin
>
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