Very nice Mike! I wish I had such photographic (and willing) visitors. Good
to see you making good use of the Vivitar macro lens. It's showing all it's
good points in those shots. Great sharpness, beautiful color and bokeh.
As much as I love mine, I came across a near new 100/2.8 Vivitar macro (the
Kiron one) - and had to buy it. I've been testing it the last couple days
against the Vivitar Series1 90/2.5. It's very close, but the 90/2.5 is
better for 1:1 macro. Now I have a hard to find, near new, and excellent
performing Vivitar (Kiron) 100/2.8 Macro I need to sell. It's a better
performing lens at normal distances (doesn't have the poor contrat/ghosting
issue), does 1:1 without an adapter, and has a built-in hood. This lens is
as great as it's reputation. Even at 1:1 the difference in quality between
it and the 90/2.5 is very minimal. I shot both under varied conditions with
my SLR/c and pixel peep'd at 100 and 200% to see the small differences. I
guess I'm just a fool for the old beast of a macro.
Paul
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of usher99@xxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:36 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Invasion of the Monarchs
Hi all.
Monarchs invaded a couple weeks ago. Despite a commotion in backyard a
dozen or so virtually knocked on the window while having coffee on a Sat
morning and proclaimed "Go get that new Viv S1 90mm macro lens you just
bought from Paul". ' I complied and here are a couple shots. Our Budlea is
now in full bloom, though they are nowhere to be seen.
http://gordon9213.zoto.com/galleries/macro11/detail/1/
http://gordon9213.zoto.com/galleries/macro11/detail/0/
There should be a link to a full size, if you wish to look.
Kod UC 100 approx f11 at 1/125 OM-2
Mike
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