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Just messing around with MF lenses

Started Jan 3, 2018 | Discussions thread
gardenersassistant Veteran Member • Posts: 9,656
Re: Just messing around with MF lenses

Tom, that is extremely helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time to test that. Seems likely that it will work with the Commlite.

Now all I have to do is convince myself that I really do want to try that beast again. I do routinely work at the magnifications you tried, but the MPE-65 is much heavier than my current close-up lens setup; racking the lens in and out is so hard and long-winded, which makes subject acquisition very difficult at higher magnifications and also precludes the rapid movement in and out from close-in to "environmental" shots that I like to do ; it is manual focus only (I use autofocus almost all the time with my close-up lenses); and being 60mm, apart from at the highest magnifications the working distances are rather short compared to my close-up lens setup. That is a lot of downside.

On the other hand the optics are better (although that is a bit complicated and not as straightforward or one-sided as it sounds).

I'm dithering. As usual.

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