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Fun with macro!
Lens: Sears Auto Zoom 80-200mm with macro mode Camera: Pentax K-500 Photo Location: Brooklyn NY 
Posted By: Roypercy, 09-19-2014, 01:12 PM

Played around today with an old Sears zoom lens with "macro" mode. It's not exactly macro (the focusing distance isn't much closer than 1m) but, given that I made these shots with the lens zoomed all the way in i'm pretty impressed with the lens' clarity, color rendition and focus. These shots are straight out of the camera, no PP. (Aperture set to 4, the lens' max, on the first three; I believe the last shot was F5.6)

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09-19-2014, 07:26 PM   #2
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Not bad, some cropping and some judiciously applied unsharp masking and it could look like output from a true macro lens. I agree that clarity, colour rendition and focus are really good, considering that this is most likely just a regular consumer-grade lens. Even the bokeh looks nice. A keeper.
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