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Re: [OM] 80/4.0 Macro resolving power?

Subject: Re: [OM] 80/4.0 Macro resolving power?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:26:46 -0400
I dunno but there's a relative test at the bottom of this page
which says the auto version of the 80/4 is slightly better than the 
Apo-Rodagon D 75mm f/4 1:1 macro.
<http://photo.net/olympus-camera-forum/00H25k>

Chuck Norcutt


Dawid Loubser wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just for interests sake, does anybody know what the actual resolving  
> power
> of the 80/4.0 Macro is at the various apertures? I am hoping it's good  
> enough to be
> basically diffraction-limited, and by reputation it's possibly the  
> finest 1:1
> lens that covers a full 35mm frame in the world (the Ultra Micro  
> nikkors are amazing,
> there are models that are diffraction-limited at f/1.2 and even f/1.0,  
> but almost none
> of these exotic models do 1:1 or cover a 35mm frame, and some of them  
> only do specialised
> wavelengths of light (UV, etc).
> 
> I know the 80/4.0 is bloody good, but I would like to satisfy my  
> boyish curiosity with
> some technical information on just "how" good it is.
> 
> Anybody?
> 
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