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Panny 30mm macro practical on GM1?

Started Oct 29, 2015 | Discussions thread
Fri13 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,116
Re: Panny 30mm macro practical on GM1?

Al Bond wrote:

Fri13 wrote:

How about a Kooka MFT extension rings kit, 10/16/21mm and then just take the 10mm extension ring in to use?

It will turn the 12-32mm to very good close-up objective with 0.44x magnification. If you would use a 16mm extension ring you can manage to get a 0.63x magnification.

Interesting. I haven't heard of this make of tubes before but they seem to be almost 1/2 the price of the Kenko ones. What is the interior surface of the tubes like? I know cheap tubes with a shiny surface can reduce contract and image quality.

The inner side is black velvet fabric. So doesn't reflect the light but can collect dirt/dust and especially get wet

I do have some cheap manual tubes but never use them because of the inability to change the aperture and, to a lesser degree, the lack of AF. I could try them to with the 12-32 to get an idea of how the set up would work.

The Kooka extension rings are great as they were cheap and seems to have optical quality good enough (the velvet coating) and passes electronic connections without problems.

The lock-in mechanism is little bit odd because it is a switch instead a button like in Olympus 1.4X teleconverter for 40-150mm and 300mm PRO. That is my only negative saying.

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