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Alan WF
Alan WF Veteran Member • Posts: 3,806
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My recently acquired OM primes came with a Vivitar Series 1 70-210mm f/3.5 (Kiron). I have to admit, I was stunned by its weight — at 928 g is is by far the heaviest lens I’ve owned — and couldn’t really see schlepping it around in my camera bag.

However, like many telephoto zooms of the era, it has a macro capability. You press some buttons, twist a ring, mumble something in Latin, and all of a sudden you can focus closer.

Coarse focus is achieved by moving the push-pull zoom mechanism. So, unless you have the closest focus (mechanism fully forward) or have the lens horizontal, it suffers from focus creep.

Anyway, bored at home today, I tried some macro on the OM primes. I spent a lot of time desaturating green and purple fringes in out-of-focus regions. I also had to fix some weird color shifts, which took orange distance markings in feet closer to red when they were towards the edge of the frame.

Regards,

Alan

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