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Olympus 45mm vs Olympus 60mm macro for food photography

Started Dec 11, 2014 | Discussions thread
Skeeterbytes Forum Pro • Posts: 23,182
Re: Panasonic 30mm macro
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Mark Thornton wrote:

http://www.43rumors.com/panasonic-30mm-f2-8-macro-to-be-launched-in-q1/

This might be the answer for your food photography.

Perhaps out of left field is the 4/3 Oly 35/3.5 macro. It delivers actual 1:1 and is very sharp and quite cheap...make that inexpensive. It will be pretty large once you add the adapter and focus is really slow and annoying, lacking a focus limit switch, but macro is usually done MF anyway.

It's excellent optically. There's also the brilliant 4/3 50/2.0, which is larger, more expensive and goes to 1:2. Many consider it the sharpest of all 4/3 lenses and it's the one selected for testing most E-series cameras. For µ4/3 I'd probably prefer the mZD 60, but if that's too long then there are these other options.

Cheers,

Rick

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