OM-D EM-5 with 45-200mm Raynox 250 Macro

For the past few years, I began to prefer using smaller sensor bridge digital cameras like the Canon G10, Panasonic FZ30 to shoot macro stuff. Adding a Raynox 250 close-up filter, the possibility of achieving good image with deeper depth of field (due to the smaller sensor) is realised.

I began to move up to Olympus DSLR E3 and E-30 with 40-150mm lens with raynox 250. Results were great. However, due to the old technology, the iso setting requires to maintain below iso400. This is to prevent too much noise and detail lost on the photo.

Come 2012, with the OM-d's great sensor made by Sony, the image quality is great and I have able to use iso800 with no noise or detail lost. However, I still keep between 400-640 to get the best quality.

With the new lenses like the 45mm f2.8 Panasonic Macro and Olympus 60mm f2.8 macro, shooting serious macro is much easier. The OM-D 's 5 axis image stabiliser works well. I have not purchase these lenses as I still prefer using a zoom with raynox for flexibility.

All shots will done by hand-held and using AF mode. This cannot be done with E-30 or E-3. The AF on OM-D work great even with the Raynox 250.