Yes, I agree completely. I was just venting some frustration about
getting good macro results with the OM and scanning. Scanning is
certainly a weak point with film, but worth it if everything works.
There is a softness to the focus of my scans. I'm beginning to think it
is in part the scanner. I have noticed that my LS-4000 scanner gives a
rotated (0.5 degrees) and a slightly trapezoidal shape to the slide
frame, implying that the mirror is slightly off. I'm not sure if that
should affect focus though. My thought was that a tilted scanner mirror
would not give good focus across the frame? I have no problem getting
good focus with the camera, unless the camera mirror itself is off.
Even with the E-1, while manual focusing, I can hear the stepper motor
clicking softly, and I can usually tell focus between +/- 1 click.
I'm going to try Vuescan and check the focus at various points...
If you look at the grain in this full resolution shot (1.8mb) you can see
that it is stretched/blurry top and bottom, but perhaps not enough
to account for all the soft focus??:
http://www.zuik.net/om/rvp3b_10_18_03_vs22a.jpg
(I think 90/2 with OM-4t, speed in that bad range, maybe 135/4.5?)
Am I expecting too much from film?
I rarely use flash with macro as I often don't like the results I get,
harsh with black background, shinny highlights, and high contrast.
Although I never got around to trying cross polarization with the
flash. I much prefer natural light, which can be more diffuse, add
color during the magic hour, and the effect and color the background can
give. Unfortunately that also restricts shots with motion issues, wind,
vibration, etc. Flash resulting in a natural looking macro is certainly an art.
That's a cool shot BTW, but still it has those flash artifacts I don't like.
Wayne
At 12:53 PM 9/11/2004, you wrote:
>Even using aperture prefire you are still subject to vibration between 1/4s
>to 1/30s, I will never use shutter speed slower than 1/125s for macro and
>most of my macro were made with flash. Manual focus is not easy, it is
>challenging and need lots of training but I like it. Here is a moving ant
>shot with Zuiko 80/4+170mm macro adapter, I doubt you can do it with AF.
>
>http://www.accura.com.hk/ant.jpg (1.7MB)
>
>If you can get better result with wide angle and film then you should be
>able to do with others, if not, found out the problem and correct it.
>
>C.H.Ling
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