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I'm interested in purchasing some cheap extention tubes to develop my macro work, can some give me some advice on which lens I use them with? I have a 35mm macro, a 70-300mm zoom and a 40-150mm.
Thanks for your help
Caroline
I have similar lenses to you and have some cheap extension tubes. I have been palying around with them on a legacy 50mm OM lens (with an adapter) and they wrok well. But just like the 35mm macro - need to concentrate on DOF.
When my first E-system camera was still in the pipeline I had already ordered cheap extension tubes from fleebay. It was pointless however, as they are of no use with Oly-fly-by-wire lenses. None of the lenses you mentioned above will work, as they need power from the body to focus.
Like Barkly did, I tried the tubes with my legacy Pentax SMC 50/1.7, but the results were useless.
I don't own one, but I think the Ex-25 would be the far better way for you go!?
When my first E-system camera was still in the pipeline I had already ordered cheap extension tubes from fleebay. It was pointless however, as they are of no use with Oly-fly-by-wire lenses. None of the lenses you mentioned above will work, as they need power from the body to focus.
Like Barkly did, I tried the tubes with my legacy Pentax SMC 50/1.7, but the results were useless.
I don't own one, but I think the Ex-25 would be the far better way for you go!?
The EX-25 is nice, but its level of extension is not super great. A cheap set of tubes can give you a lot of extension for little cash. But the big problem is that you can't control the aperture on Four Thirds lenses with manual tubes. So for manual extension tubes I would recommend a manual legacy lens. I'm not an expert on these so hopefully someone else here can recommend a solution. I've heard that a 50mm f/1.8 OM Zuiko on tubes and even reversed can be very effective for macro work.
I'm interested in purchasing some cheap extention tubes to develop my macro work, can some give me some advice on which lens I use them with? I have a 35mm macro, a 70-300mm zoom and a 40-150mm.
Thanks for your help
Caroline
I have a 50mm f1.8 OM Zuiko plus adapter plus Vivitar extension tubes for sale if you are interested.
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