A week ago I took a photo of Zuleikha, which I converted to black & white. She had just taken a bath, and we were about to have dinner. It was “explored” on Flickr, so it had lots of views, and some “favorites” (like “likes” in FB):
Zuleikha, September 2014. Olympus E-PL5 with 45mm/1.8 lens and a bounced flash.
Today we took a short walk, and I had the 14-42mm zoom on my camera, set to 17mm. Zuleikha was collecting some leaves:
Three colours: red, yellow, green
And back home I asked Mitchie if she wanted to swap our macro lenses (she’s documenting some of Zuleikha’s work for school a bit). So I gave my ZD 50mm/2 macro lens to her, and took her manual OM Zuiko Auto Macro 50mm/3.5 lens instead. Of course I had to immediately test it:
Red hot chili pepper. Olympus E-PL5 with OM Zuiko Auto Macro 50mm/3.5 lens at f/8. *Not* sharpened.
Thanks for viewing.
I guess it’s not necessary to sharpen the chili. 😉 The OM macro seems to be a great old lens. How does it compare to the modern Oly macros?
Quite good actually. I was surprised to find sharpness about on par, but of course it doesn’t have an aperture of f/2 which might be useful for portraits. And the autofocus is missing of course, tho that doesn’t really bother me for macros / close-ups.
Got this one for my wife for 115€ if I remember correctly – and for that, it’s a steal. And it’s like new as well, so nothing to complain about. A wonderful lens for video as well, where you focus manually most of the time.