Using the Olympus OM 90mm F2 macro lens with the Olympus E620 Digital camera

I used the opportunity of another cold damp June day to continue the review of using my Olympus OM lens collection with the Olympus E620 Digital camera, and this post shows a selection of images taken with the Olympus OM 90mm F2 macro lens at Whitemill. My previous post reviewed the Olympus OM 38mm & 80mm macro lenses with the Olympus E620 digital camera body.

All of the images, after some flash setting experimentation, were taken using my Olympus OM T28 twin macro flash set up on a manual shutter setting of 1/250. This lens works well with the E620 camera body as its optics allow a good amount of light through to the viewfinder when wide open. Focus becomes more difficult with the reduction in light once you stop down through the apertures, and I found it near on impossible to focus after F8. This though will also be to some extent attributable to the poor weather conditions of the day.

The 1st 3 are of a moth & a couple of small flies (approx 1-2cm’s in length) then followed by a reasonably large snail (approx 5-6cm’s in length) that will hopefully give you an idea of the magnification you can get with the lens at maximum extension.

A Nettle-tap moth (Anthophila fabriciana)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Dung fly (Scatophagidae)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A yet to be identified fly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then the snail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other advantage in using digital is that you can take multiple shots without the worry of the cost of using up film. This provides the opportunity to make a stack image of an insect, multiple shots merged together where the DOF & focus have varied through the set of shots.

This image of a Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) is a stack of 2 shots taken at F4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and finally to show the sharpness of the lens here is the original shot of a grasshopper compared to a crop version.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The crop version