Macro options

[meerec]

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Here is macro on the cheap with the macro-adapter-M. In this case attached with the summarit-M 35 f2.4 ASPH lens.

Unfortunately this was shot very late at night with iso 32000 so it is very noisy. But the adapter has potential.

 

[voightL]

Did anybody try the Olympus 90/2.0 macro yet?

Will try when I get my M to L adapter.

[scott kirkpatrick]

I've been checking out the CL 60 macro today.  Its sweet spot seems to be f/4 to f/5.6 with a little loss of contrast due to diffraction at f/8 and f/11.  Although it can be closed down to f/32, I would really have to need a lot of DOF to go there.  Here's a 100% crop from a close up (at a bit over 3:1 reduction) of text and background printed with a very fine screen at f/11 (the original wasn't quite flat).  You can see the underlying screen and the text overprinted with a second screen looks really three dimensional:

 

C1000525 by scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr

 

Of the three macro lenses available for the CL, the APO-Macro Elmarit 60 CL is the lightest (421 g with front and back caps on my kitchen scale), while the APO 100-R weighs 794 g and the R 60 with its 1:1 extension tube is 558 g.  The CL macro is also the smallest, as long as lens shades aren't considered.  With lens shades extended (the R-60 doesn't have or need one) it is the longest of the three.

 

I had a curious intermittent problem shooting close to a backlit computer LCD display with the CL macro.  You can focus this lens until the lens shade comes within <1 cm of the object (as long as it has its own illumination), but on several of my tries at this distance, the CL refused to write the result to the SD card, even though that card holds the previous 500 CL exposures and the locking tab was tight in the OK position.  In between the fails, I backed off a bit to lower magnification, refocused, and had no problems.  Subsequently, I have shot almost as close with no problems.  Has anyone else seen this?

[scott kirkpatrick]

Rendering of color and light with the CL macro are also very satisfying.  A grab shot:

 

C1000492 by scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr

 

ISO 800, f/4.0

[Alistairm]

It is a brilliant lens. Best macro lens I have owned, and that includes the legendary Nikkor 200 Micro and the Leica APO-Macro-Summarit-S 120mm f/2.5. 

 

Here is a photo of a woven place mat. f/3.5, 1/60, ISO 3200 just handheld at dinner. I really hope that Leica makes a 180 or 200mm macro for chasing bugs on the SL. 

 

 

 

 

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