Sears 55mm macro lens and an E-P5

So I have been drooling over the Olympus 60mm and thought I'd break out my old manual Sears that I played with when I had my E-P3.  It's a great lens, and other than the lack of autofocus takes nearly as good pictures as the Olympuys 60mm macro.

It has an extension tube which brings it from 1:2 to 1:1 and I had pretty good success before, but the E-P5 makes it much more fun to work with. Focus peaking really helps locate the perfect focus and the tilting LCD saves on back and neck strain trying to see the darn display in some setups. Dials and controls are improved enough to make things go just smooth enough to keep from being annoying.

All the images are uploaded at 100% resolution so go pixel peep if you like that sort of thing.  The lens does a damn good job even at that level.

Enough that I may get a 600R flash instead of the 60mm macro for now.  Decisions decisions.

Anyway, on to the pictures.  I used some of my electronics collection as subjects.

The lens!  Very black.

Close up of a hard drive read write head.  Zoom in to see the reflection of the underside.  When the disk spins the head floats above it.

Edges of a hard drives platters.  Notice the detail on the platter edges.  They are not actually metal, but made of silicon.  The marks must be from the manufacturing process.

My favorite old time alphanumeric display.  HP made some great stuff back in the day.  Each pair of digits has a little IC as a controller.

Old fashioned LED display with built in magnifiers.    Each segment has a wire going to it.

Core memory!  Even I'm not old enough to have ever used this.  Each of those little rings is one bit of storage.

A single digit buffered display.  Takes input as binary.  Handy.  Also very stunning at high magnification.  Check out the little indentations each LED is in. Blue, gold, red and silver.  I think this is my favorite.  Resting on a penny to get the right angle.

Back in the day, Sears got their Pentax-mount lenses OEM'd from Ricoh, so they were sourced from a legitimate quality photo manufacturer.