{"id":118,"date":"2008-08-22T20:46:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T10:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-08-26T23:08:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T13:08:41","slug":"correction-zd-50-200mm-swd-incompatible-with-ring-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Correction &#8211; ZD 50-200mm SWD incompatible with Ring flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=13\">earlier post about the wonderful Olympus ZD 50-200mm SWD lens<\/a>, I wrote that it matched nicely with the Olympus Ring Flash for 1:2 macro photography at 1.2m working distance. (I have now amended this post).<\/p>\n<p>BUT I had made a BIG assumption and not actually tested it out until tonight.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThat assumption was that the compatibility of the Ring Flash attaching to the original ZD 50-200mm lens would extend to the new SWD version of the lens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alas, Olympus for some strange reason, decided to change the lens hood mount in the SWD version of this lens and thus <strong>the Ring Flash no longer mounts onto it but must be hand held in place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This works, but is a bit unwieldy holding the camera, lens in one hand which also needs to press AF button and take photo whilst other hand holds the flash in place.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like it may need some velcro to keep it in place if I can work out a suitable system, and it would be nice then to be able to use it on the 14-42mm kit lens in a similar manner too for wide angle creative portraits.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it seems the Macro Twin Flash still is compatible with the SWD lens.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry if I have misinformed anyone but Olympus did not advertise this incompatibility either to my recollection but I did find a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympus.co.jp\/en\/support\/imsg\/digicamera\/compati\/e_system.cfm\u00a0\">reference here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post about the wonderful Olympus ZD 50-200mm SWD lens, I wrote that it matched nicely with the Olympus Ring Flash for 1:2 macro photography at 1.2m working distance. (I have now amended this post). BUT I had made a BIG assumption and not actually tested it out until tonight. That assumption was [&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":[33,24,25,14,38,27,37],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenses","tag-flash","tag-lens","tag-macro","tag-olympus","tag-olympus-ring-flash","tag-telephoto","tag-zd-50-200mm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}