AOI UCL-09PRO +12.5 Close Up Lens vs 60 m macro

[FedeQ]

Hi, I currently own the AOI UCL-09PRO +12.5 Close Up Lens with the 14-42 EZ, I'm thinking about switching to the 60 mm for macro, I already have the lens, I would just need the port. (do I need the focus gear if I'm using autofocus?)
This is for an OM1 with the AOI housing.
What differences should I expect in terms of working distance, depth of field/focus range. easy of use, magnification, image quality, etc?
Thanks in advance.

 

[hancockks]

The backscatter reviews have some comparisons

 

[bvanant]

You will gain quite a lot of magnification with the 60, shorter working distance and less DOF. (DOF decrease kind of goes as the square of the magnification).
Bill

 

[rmorgan]

Hi, I currently own the AOI UCL-09PRO +12.5 Close Up Lens with the 14-42 EZ, I'm thinking about switching to the 60 mm for macro, I already have the lens, I would just need the port. (do I need the focus gear if I'm using autofocus?)
This is for an OM1 with the AOI housing.
What differences should I expect in terms of working distance, depth of field/focus range. easy of use, magnification, image quality, etc?
Thanks in advance.

I've always found close-up lenses hard to use. The 60 is a terrific, small, sharp lens, and has the huge added benefit of being a good close-to-midrange portrait lens, as long as you set the limited to infinity (which slows the focus down a bit, but much less on the OM-1 than older bodies). You don't need the focus gear to use it.

 

[BoltSnap]

The 60mm macro lens is much better than the 12-42 EX. It will perform much better if you use a focusing light with it.

You don't need the focus gear to use it.

I prefer to use the focus gear to manually focus the lens when it is difficult to do so properly in turbid or darker waters. The 60mm goes wild sometimes, trying to focus, and it will focus on the wrong subject, a grain of sand for example, not the intended subject. Switching to manual focusing helps a great deal, based on my experience. I am using a first-generation E-M5 camera, however.

 

[bvanant]

The MFO will help but maybe not so much on the EM5-I
BVA