{"id":3404,"date":"2010-05-15T19:40:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T09:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2010-05-15T23:52:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T13:52:38","slug":"macro-extension-tubes-for-micro-four-thirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3404","title":{"rendered":"Macro extension tubes for Micro Four Thirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panasonic and Olympus are yet to produce a macro extension tube for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?page_id=1510\">Micro Four Thirds camera system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is somewhat unfortunate given that the Micro Four Thirds system is better suited to macro work than dSLRs as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> accurate manual focus is much easier and faster to use as there is no mirror to move out of the way<\/li>\n<li>lighter cameras means your hands don&#8217;t tire as quick when doing hand held nature work<\/li>\n<li>2x crop factor gives you more magnification or working distance<\/li>\n<li>smaller sensor may allow more depth of field which is so critical in macro work<\/li>\n<li>the flip out swivel live LCD of the GH-1 further adds to its versatility in macro work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course you can use practically any macro extension tube set ever made &#8211; for example you can use an Olympus OM extension tube or bellows with an Olympus OM lens &#8211; all you need is an OM-MFT adapter.<\/p>\n<p>But now there is another option which will suit those who have various brand macro lenses &#8211; <strong>Rong Jin<\/strong> (jinfinance\/muh) has just announced availability of a Micro Four Thirds (MFT) extension tube set on Ebay shipped from China\u00a0 for $US38.50 &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=170483712000\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As this is a MFT mount tube set, it means you could use any MFT lens with it &#8211; but unfortunately, you will not be able to change its aperture or use auto-focus as there is no electrical coupling available.<\/p>\n<p>This means <strong>this extension tube set would be most useful with legacy lenses<\/strong> <strong>which have an aperture ring<\/strong> and means all you need is a legacy lens to MFT adapter to use a legacy lens with it.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Rong Jin also makes a large range of legacy lens to MFT adapters &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.ebay.com\/muh_select\/m.html?_nkw=&amp;_armrs=1&amp;_from=&amp;_ipg=&amp;_trksid=p4340\">his Ebay store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you don&#8217;t believe me that MFT can do great nature macro shots, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fardels2009\/\">Fardel2009 on Flickr<\/a> who uses a Panasonic GF-1 with Leica 45mm MFT macro lens to give shots such as these:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4055\/4497361266_630ac47c52.jpg\" alt=\"CATCH - ARRIBA LAS MANOS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4019\/4597391636_773d0de26a.jpg\" alt=\"OJO ROJO 2 - CLOSE UP FLY - RED EYES\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panasonic and Olympus are yet to produce a macro extension tube for the Micro Four Thirds camera system. This is somewhat unfortunate given that the Micro Four Thirds system is better suited to macro work than dSLRs as: accurate manual focus is much easier and faster to use as there is no mirror to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[18,25],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenses","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-macro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}