Thank you Ed, Moose, Bill, and Wayne for reaching out.
I too have been thinking to use a 75mm enlarging lens. However, I am
unfamiliar with the mounting thread situation, and don't want to get more
caught up in adapters to mount and fit into with the vivitar bellows system
I have. while the OM 80 lens I am 90% sure will work with what I have.
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:30:34 +1100
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Olympus Camera Discussion'" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Looking for macro, om 80 bellows?
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A 75/80mm enlarging lens is another possibility, seem to be plenty of LTM
to various other mount adapters available.
...Wayne
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Subject: Re: [OM] Looking for macro, om 80 bellows?
On 12/12/2017 8:32 AM, Nicholas Travers wrote:
> I went to go dupe some negs and my 50mm lens doesn't work on the
> bellows setup I have. Camera to Lens distance is too long.
Perhaps just as well. In my tests of several macro lenses years ago, the
50/3.5 Macro was not as good at 1:1 as at 1:2.
Still pretty darn good, though.
> I think a 70 or 75 would be ideal but looks like the 80mm is the next
step up.
Certainly so with OM mount as the OM 80 mm bellows lenses are optimized for
1:1. The 80/4 Auto is THE answer with Oly bellows and slide/film copier.
> Most of the ones on ebay are in japan. I'd like to get my hands on
> one by next week if possible. shipping to 07446
My 80/4 Auto is not leaving. The Tamron 90/2.5 (52B) Adaptall was designed
to work to 1:1 with a matching extension tube, so should be good with
bellows. In my tests, it was slightly better at 1:1 than the 50/3.5 (not as
good at 1:2).
The Kiron 105/2.8 is another possibility. Focuses directly to 1:1 with its
double helical, and image quality is different, but about the same quality,
at 1:1 as the Tammy.
I believe both were available labeled as Vivitars.
Good luck!
Glassy Moose
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