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[OM] Re: Bellows

Subject: [OM] Re: Bellows
From: "Allen Coltrin" <hjlantern@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:21:07 -0800
"Drink Me"

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/

Allen


----Original Message Follows----
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Bellows
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:25:45 -0500

Don't know nothin' 'bout no yahoo group.

Chuck Norcutt

Allen Coltrin wrote:
 > There were several threads on the yahoo group. I believe Scott was a 
large
 > part of those.
 >
 > Allen
 >
 > ----Original Message Follows----
 > From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
 > To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
 > Subject: [OM] Re: Bellows
 > Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:54:30 -0500
 >
 > A dual cable release would only be of value to you if the lens is on an
 > OM body.  One leg of the cable will release the OM's shutter and the
 > other will close down the lens to shooting aperture.  It's not of much
 > use though with an OM lens and bellows on an E-330.  With that sort of
 > rig everything will be manual.
 >
 > Reversing the lens may be desirable when the distance to the subject is
 > less than the distance to the sensor.  It has to do with the way lenses
 > are designed which expects the object distance from the front of the
 > lens to be greater than the image distance behind the lens.  In close-up
 > photography these normal object/image distance relationships may get
 > reversed... ergo reverse the lens to compensate unless it's a special
 > macro lens to begin with.
 >
 > If you get serious about this stuff this is a book you should own:
 > 
<http://www.amazon.com/John-Shaws-Closeups-Nature-Shaw/dp/0817440526/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3192476-2323027?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173145846&sr=8-1>
 > Shaw uses Nikon gear but the principles are the same and the gear is
 > similar.
 >
 > Chuck Norcutt
 >
 > NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
 >  >
 >    Without doing all your
 >  > homework for you, I would say the Olympus unit allows you to use a 
dual
 > cable
 >  > release and also to reverse your lens on the bellows.
 >
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