Olympus 60mm f2.8 Macro is it all hype?

Trevor Carpenter wrote:

After asking a question on this forum about my macro strategy and studying reviews and literally hundreds of images on the web I have come to the conclusion that the reviews and user euphoria is completely overcooked given the name above i.e. macro

Summarising

This is a superb 60mm lens with very good IQ that warrants the price

It is extremely versatile

It gets very high marks for user friendliness

But as a macro lens it is a long way from being a market leader and Macro is the key word in the product name.

Many of the reviews treated macro functionality as secondary and some reviewers even admitted that they had little interest in macro.

A lot of macro examples are of things like bottle labels which I could achieve in many ways without needing the macro capability.

Wherever challenging subjects have been taken, the in focus parts of the subject are far and few between, depth of field appearing to be very difficult to manage.

It is such an attractive piece of kit, it is hard to say I don’t want one but there seems to me to be many ways to achieve better quality macro shots at a fraction of the price.

Nothing would pleaseme more than to be conviced that I am wrong. I can only base my opinions on what I have seen.

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