b-macro & b-28 wide angle

any impressions of these products. I have an e-100

Both are excellent lenses and will produce corner-to-corner sharp images. The B-28 is only 0.8X but does provide a noticeably wider field of view. Of course, with the limited resolution of the E-100RS and C2100uz, an ultra-wide would not be practical anyway. The B-Macro is a two-element macro lens that will give highy-corrected flat-field performance. Neither lens is terribly expensive given their optical quality. If you don't already have the B-300, I would suggest that you consider it first.





Rich {C2020z, C2100uz, C3030z, HP970C}

Jamie Tauritz said:

any impressions of these products. I have an e-100

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Hello,

I'm still looking for a good macro solution for my 2100UZ. I've tried a lot of close-up filter, but only got crappy pictures (only center of the frame is sharp, DoF is too small). Have you got any samples with 2100 & B-macro ? What is the smaller area you can have in a shot ? with which focal length is it useable ? How does it compare with MCON-40 lens (the one recommanded by Olympus i think) ?

thx,

Rich in NEPA said:

Both are excellent lenses and will produce corner-to-corner sharp
images. The B-28 is only 0.8X but does provide a noticeably wider
field of view. Of course, with the limited resolution of the
E-100RS and C2100uz, an ultra-wide would not be practical anyway.
The B-Macro is a two-element macro lens that will give
highy-corrected flat-field performance. Neither lens is terribly
expensive given their optical quality. If you don't already have

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Thanks for the input. I have the B-300 on order

Rich in NEPA said:

Rich {C2020z, C2100uz, C3030z, HP970C}

Jamie Tauritz said:

any impressions of these products. I have an e-100

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jamie,

i got a B-Macro last month. personally, i think the quality is pretty good. but it only moves your camera a little bite closer to the object.
it did make a test. the link is:

y42.photos.yahoo.com/bc/doubleglasses/lst?.dir= &.src=ph&.view=t

Tony

Jamie Tauritz said:

any impressions of these products. I have an e-100

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I have not used the B-Macro on my C2100uz all that much, but I'd venture this guess that the minimum coverage at maximum zoom and macro mode with the B-Macro converter attached is roughly 7/8"x1-1/8". The sample photo below is at this setting. In my opinion there is a lot of chromatic abberation, most likely from the camera's long zoom lens, even though the field appears fairly flat. If you really need to get this close (or closer), you might be better off using the Cx0x0z series cameras whose lenses are better corrected. I'm not familiar with the MCON-40.



Rich {C2020z, C2100uz, C3030z, HP970C}

eber said:

I'm still looking for a good macro solution for my 2100UZ. I've
tried a lot of close-up filter, but only got crappy pictures (only
center of the frame is sharp, DoF is too small). Have you got any
samples with 2100 & B-macro ? What is the smaller area you can have
in a shot ? with which focal length is it useable ? How does it
compare with MCON-40 lens (the one recommanded by Olympus i think) ?

thx,

Rich in NEPA said:

Both are excellent lenses and will produce corner-to-corner sharp
images. The B-28 is only 0.8X but does provide a noticeably wider
field of view. Of course, with the limited resolution of the
E-100RS and C2100uz, an ultra-wide would not be practical anyway.
The B-Macro is a two-element macro lens that will give
highy-corrected flat-field performance. Neither lens is terribly
expensive given their optical quality. If you don't already have

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Hi Rich,

Thanks for your answer. Your photo is reduced too much to see any CA. Please could you post a link to the full size image ?

It seems far better than simple close-up lens that gives ugly pictures even reduced like this.

Rich in NEPA said:

I have not used the B-Macro on my C2100uz all that much, but I'd
venture this guess that the minimum coverage at maximum zoom and
macro mode with the B-Macro converter attached is roughly
7/8"x1-1/8". The sample photo below is at this setting. In my
opinion there is a lot of chromatic abberation, most likely from
the camera's long zoom lens, even though the field appears fairly
flat. If you really need to get this close (or closer), you might
be better off using the Cx0x0z series cameras whose lenses are
better corrected. I'm not familiar with the MCON-40.



Rich {C2020z, C2100uz, C3030z, HP970C}

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Here's the full-size unretouched image:

http://home.att.net/~photographs/pics/p5010004.jpg

Note that this was a quick sample off a tripod, and I didn't align the camera and subject as carefully as if I used a macro stand. But it makes the point about the B-Macro. It's very good for flat-field macro and document work. However, I still think that the C2100uz lens is a bit too complex for the cleanest macro images.

Rich {C202z, C2100uz, C3030z, HP970C}

The photo of the dollar bill looked pretty good. (however doesn't come close to what a Nikon 950/990/995 can do)

I tried a set of closeup lens in a camera store (Hoya i think) with my C2100 and with the lens set at 1/3 up from wide angle ( i thought I had heard this to be the optimal setting) was unable to focus close enough to get any appreciable magnification. What was I doing wrong?? I decided not to purchase until someone could show a good photo with appreciable magnification and good quality and explain how best to use close up lens. To date, I have only heard talk but no pics (I don't count the B-macro as a simple low cost close up lens etc. or should I?)

On another note, my Nikon 950 takes outstanding macro's with no addon lenses. A quarter can more than fill the frame. I mean, tack sharp!! When I bought the C2100 it wasn't for macro (but the 10x IS lens!!!).

So if the C2100 can't do much better than the built-in macro, someone admit it and I'll quite wasting my time reading "macro threads"

By the way, what does the B-Macro sell for on the street?

thanks dave

Tony said:

y42.photos.yahoo.com/bc/doubleglasses/lst?.dir= &.src=ph&.view=t

Tony

Jamie Tauritz said:

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no photos in your album

Tony said:

y42.photos.yahoo.com/bc/doubleglasses/lst?.dir= &.src=ph&.view=t

Tony

Jamie Tauritz said:

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