[Leica] Macro

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

I'm in the same quandary. Sometimes I carry the Visoflex, but that is 
a 50 year old way of doing things.

For handy, high quality macro I carry the Canon 5DII with 100 macro. 
Not small or light but it works well.

More often I carry the Panasonic G1 with a Nikon 200/4 Micro-Nikkor 
(manual) attached. That gives me a macro with an equivalent focal 
length of 400mm. I like long macro best, and that one allows me to 
get the background blur I like. As noted before, manual focus on the 
Panasonics is fairly painless. If I also want shorter macro, I still 
have a 55/3.5 Micro-Nikkor. G1's are getting very cheap since the G2 
came out.

Quality with the Panasonics is not at 5DII or M9 levels, but it's a 
far cry from P&S. I don't like the P&S cameras for macro because of 
the huge depth of field (and the noticeably lower image quality).




>LUG:
>
>The M8 and M9 are not the best choices for macro photography, even with the
>Visoflex.  I've been looking for a cheap alternative to carry along just for
>macro.  Somebody on one of my stock lists uses this combination:  G9/Olympus
>B-Macro doublet (f=40cm) I assume that means the Canon G9, but what lens is
>that?  I can't find it with Google.
>
>Any other recommendations?
>
>TIA
>
>Tina
>
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