This is a cracking good lens. Nice to use, pleasantly affordable. I have had this on my cam for a couple months now. Been using it for everything. I have been waiting for this mushroom patiently, now after heavy rains they’ve started. This is the first one up. My favourite mushrooms.
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It's a 4070-3. Got it from my father-in-law as I just sneaked into the calculator era and didn't have to use a slide rule during engineering school. He used it in engineering in the early 60's.
Nice, my collection is also mostly from my father-in-law, he was in the navy from WWII through Vietnam, and had about a slide rule per decade until calculators took over. Maybe for another thread!
My username notwithstanding, it had been over a year since I'd been able to dive, thanks to the 'rona (between travel restrictions and my day job- I'm a safety professional for a government entity with over 1600 employees so I've been a bit busy lately). I finally finally finally was able to take some time off for a 3 day weekend on Washington's Hood Canal. The 30 is my default night dive lens, so I put it to good use on 2 night dives. Way back at the beginning of the pandemic I bought a ring light, so these were also my first dives with it.
Many critters seem to have come right out of a cartoon, like this squat lobster
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Another cartoon is this golf ball crab. All the spines.
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This shot would normally be culled, but it shows where the name comes from
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This copper rockfish appears to be preggers, and is also suffering from some eye trauma- most likely from a parasite.
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Cioppino starter kit
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On the second night, I got a little rushed and managed to get some water in the housing while changing over from day dive (12-40 in a dome) to night dive. That caused a bunch of condensation on the front of the macro port. The desiccant tube could only do so much; the close focusing ability of the lens shows the result after carrying the housing front side down. Kinda works as an abstract.
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Despite all the condensation, I got lucky and managed to grab a snap of some free swimming zooplankton attracted to the lights (fairly tight crop, but hey- it's not often you get something like this even close to being in focus.
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I like your fungus shots are they mainly single shot or stacked?
I tried hand held stacking with my EM1.3 but failed badly. Given up for the time being and gone back to my favourite macro camera the EM10.2
I think when this lens goes on special next time I will get one, all the shots i see are far better than what i hear on reviews. Makes me wonder if some people who have reviewed this lens have used it, or just got a bad copy.
All pics 8 jpegs LN stacked in camera, M 5.2
Handheld will need good shutter speed. Because of the low light, I use a tripod with cable release.
I doubt that there are any bad copies of this lens. This lens focuses much faster than the 60. The pics look very similar. I couldn’t tell the difference. The working distance is closer, for stuff that doesn’t run or fly away, it doesn’t matter.
I use this as my standard lens. My kit is M5.2, Panasonic 14/2.5 Olympus 30/3.5 Olympus 40-150R. The gear is all good. Really pleased, no complaints.
My second go at posting this, originally posted in the Panasonic thread 30mm thread. Deleted that one.
Took this new lens out a few nights to try it out on some close ups. All hand held and processed in snapseed with a few dubious filters to try and polish a few not so good images.
I purchased this lens with no real use case for it but it looks like a lens I will enjoy using.
One benifit I found it that since the flash mainly goes over the top of you subject I get less shiny spots on the critters.
This leaf curler has a body about 10mm long all up.
first image is the full size photo and was the biggest magnification I could get using a flash at night
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This second image was about a big a crop as I could make without the image completely falling apart
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These a just a few random crickets that I find hard to photograph, especially hand held in the grass where itis hard to not spook then by moving the grass and getting a clear shot as they try to get behind the grass
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A couple firsts for me. My first true macro lens, and my first Oly lens. I bought this to scan negatives, but like most neophytes had to immediately run around the yard snapping photos.
I am utterly impressed at how well this does handheld. Not sure how much I'll ever get into macro shooting, but I expect it'll do well for the intended purpose.
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