Is this lens worth for macro

delchev · June 9, 2007

Hello,

A friend of mine gave me a Kiptaron 50/1.3 lens. The lens has no thread for

mounting on a body, nor it has a diphragm. It does not have a filter thread

either, on the other hand it has a built-in hood, so I guess it was made for

some sort of projection machine. I have tried it this morning with some plants

in the garden - here are the full size images (Warning - each file is about

2MB). The photoes have been taken using a Olympus E300 Revolt Body. The images

have only been converted from RAW using the defaults - no further processing

has been applied. The lens has a rather long body, so there is no way of

getting focus at distances greater than 10cm (approximately). The questions is -

is this lens worth for a macro lens - is the picture I get through it good

enough for quality macro photographs? If so, I will start searching for a way

to attach it to the body permanently - now the DOF is so shallow that getting a

good focus is a real problem, especially (like these photos were taken) with

handheld camera...

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