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Olympus 40-150 f2.8 is fantastic

Started Jun 18, 2017 | Discussions thread
OP Lars101x Regular Member • Posts: 349
Re: 210mm ?

MatLD wrote:

I've been contemplating buying the 60mm f2.8 macro for a while, and insects would be an interesting subject for me. I'm puzzled by your shots (very nice ones btw) as 210mm seems a very long focal length for macro.

I know almost nothing about macro : did you shoot at 210mm to get maximum magnification from your lens or because of the distance to the subject ?

In other words, would you rather use the 60mm f2.8 for these shots if you had it ?

I have just tried the 60mm macro for a brief few minutes so I can't say anything about it. But for this type of shot I'm pretty confident that it is EASIER to use the 40-150 + TC.

Most of the shots I took was at 210mm, I wanted to fill as much as possible of the sensor. Some images were taken at less, like the blue flower at 180mm.

The hover fly is cropped to about half the area of the original image.

I think tele lens macro and real macro are very different in nature. This suits me so much better coming from the birding side of things.

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