Anemone with thanks to Lois Farley Shuford 

I have had a bit of a bad go of it lately, not the least being that I have damaged my Nikon D300 and it is in the shop.  The cost of repair puts me in that, “have to make a decision” zone.  Should I buy a new camera or should I repair it?  It is a good camera and has done me well so it is getting repaired.

In the meantime I’m using my backup camera, the µ4/3.   The Panasonic is an excellent camera but it has its limitation.  One I am told is that it is not the best camera for macro photography.  Today I needed/wanted some close up of flowers so I felt a little insecure at the task at hand.  I took my GF1 with a mild telephoto lens on it and a collection of Diopter Lenses.  Again Diopter lens are looked down on as not being good for macrophotography.  None of these images are  cropped, therefore what you see is what you get.

The disadvantage of the diopters is that you have to get within the focus zone or you will have troubles.  Because of this you are moving your body in and out until the focus is close and then you can use the automatic focus. Also diopters are suppose to be soft around the edges but the flowers are more or less in the centre of the image so that is not a real problem.

Primula

The disadvantage of my camera is it doesn’t have an EVF so composition and focus are both a bit of hit and miss happening.  Because digital is cheap you can shoot a lot of images to compensate for this down fall.   To get these four images I did shoot 16 frames.

Pasqueflower

The great advantage of the µ43 is that DOF is excessive and  that is a good thing to have in macro photography.

Double Columbine

The final conclusion is that while the µ4/3 is not  the absolute best for macro photography it is not all as bad as some make it out to be.  So best not to listen to people and just get out and shoot image and see what happens.