Today I read a post from Laz on that other BB site about his observation that the Olympus C4040/3030 has a sweet spot for macro focusing that is 4 tabs of the zoom lever back from full telephoto. He's posted this comment here awhile ago, and I was skeptical and too lazy at the time to check it out.
I overcame my lazyness today and took a few test shots and learned that he was right! Sorry for doubting you Laz.
The details are too long to put here. I've made a page on my site summerizing the test. It's at http://home.attbi.co....Macro4040.html
Go Laz!
Macro with the Olympus C4040: Laz did it again
Started by herbko, Oct 25 2002 09:51 PM
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Posted 25 October 2002 - 09:51 PM
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Posted 27 October 2002 - 06:11 PM
Herb,
What's a tab??
What's a tab??
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Posted 28 October 2002 - 12:54 AM
tab ~ tabulator ~ push the zoom lever slightly ?
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Posted 28 October 2002 - 12:04 PM
Just tab on the level enough to get the zoom to move; minimum change in zoom.
I don't know if the movement of the zoom is quantized and "4 tabs" as instructed by Laz is really precise. That's why I now set my C4040 to start at zoom setting "80mm". Macro focusing is definitely better there, and one tab toward WA is still better.
Herb
I don't know if the movement of the zoom is quantized and "4 tabs" as instructed by Laz is really precise. That's why I now set my C4040 to start at zoom setting "80mm". Macro focusing is definitely better there, and one tab toward WA is still better.
Herb
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Canon 5D; Aquatica housing; 2 Inon Z220 strobes; Canon 100mm macro, 17-40mm ; Sigma 15mm FE, 24mm macro, 50mm macro
Canon 5D; Aquatica housing; 2 Inon Z220 strobes; Canon 100mm macro, 17-40mm ; Sigma 15mm FE, 24mm macro, 50mm macro
