Olympus'Zuiko Digital 35mm f/3.5 Macro And Macro Flash

摘要

When I first heard about a 35mm focal length macro lens my mouth began to water.The 229 price tag was an immediate inducement,as were the compactness and lightweight of this glass.What threw me,though,was the focal length.Because this was in the new Four Thirds System for an Olympus digital SLR(the EVOLT E-300 was used for this test),focal length doubled to 70mm.A 70mm f/3.5 macro lens is a tad slow,compared with that trusty old 90mm f/2 I had used on my Olympus OM-1 film SLR.Yes,you could opt for the current Zuiko 50mm f/2 macro,but that lens only focuses to half life size-and costs twice as much.The new lens focuses all the way to life size without extension tubes-a decided advantage in macro work.