OLY M.Zuiko ED 30mm f3.5 Macro Lens vs. the OLY 60mm f/2.8 Macro Lens

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Hello OLY users

I already have the OLY 60mm f/2.8 macro lens and have been using it for a long time. I am wondering about the 30mm lens from OLY and if it will serve a purpose in addition to the 60mm lens.

Do you have and used both underwater? When and where would you use the 30mm vs. the 60mm?

Is there an advantage to the 30mm over the 60mm in any scenario/situation, what/where/why please?

Any information pro and con for the 30mm vs. the 60mm will be appreciated please. I need to know if it will serve a purpose the 60mm doesn't or can't do as well to justify buying it with the necessary port.

(I am talking about underwater use)
 
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Since I got the 30 a few years ago, I rarely use the 60 anymore. Auto focus is so much faster, and it seems to work well for fish portraits, larger nudibranchs, and wider macro scenes. It's my default lens for night dives and situations where I know the visibility is poor, say- 6 ft or less. I use it with my M1 mkI in the Olympus housing behind the Olympus macro port. For the price, you can't go wrong.
 
Does anyone know if the 30mm macro works in the flat port (i.e. stock in PT-EP13), or is it too far from the glass?
 
To add on will it work with aoi housing standard port and 34mm extension
Just checked aoi compatibility and works behind standard port
 
Does anyone know if the 30mm macro works in the flat port (i.e. stock in PT-EP13), or is it too far from the glass?
It works in the standard Oly flat port as well. I use it a lot and if I see something really small a crop is not a good as the 60 but good enough to keep. When I'm in Bali (ha Ha bad joke) I use the 60mm for sites where I suspect something important may be ie bumblebee shrimp but on the wreck, the 30 has so much more flexibility.
The 30mm is a much-malinged lens probably because it is not a lot of money. It came with me on every trip prior to this Chinese flu.
 
It works in the standard Oly flat port as well. I use it a lot and if I see something really small a crop is not a good as the 60 but good enough to keep. When I'm in Bali (ha Ha bad joke) I use the 60mm for sites where I suspect something important may be ie bumblebee shrimp but on the wreck, the 30 has so much more flexibility.
The 30mm is a much-malinged lens probably because it is not a lot of money. It came with me on every trip prior to this Chinese flu.

Where/when/why would you use it in place of the 60mm lens?
 
Burhan, I thought I had given one description of that. In my working life, questions like yours used to be called 'Seamore' questions.
I am sure others here can give you more details than I can provide. There is no set plan on what you are going to see! Maybe you should add that to your signature "We will see ???. ??? and plenty of ???" then you see none of those.
 
If it is a real macro site, I prefer the 60. The 30 is for larger stuff. It is too hard to get close enough with the 30 to get good magnification and still get some light on the subject. It is sharp and focuses fast, which is nice. And cheap, which is nice.
 
I agree tursiops, the tough part is deciding which are true macro sites. I have had the 60 on and been a bit stuffed when something larger or between turns up but that is diving - normal. Swimming down the back of the Tulamben wreck and seeing large pelagics, some guys I know have seen Mola Mola down there. Diving is not meant for the easily frustrated.
Had the same in PNG on a drift dive when a sailfish swam slowly past me.
Maybe we need one lens to rule them all - from close up WA to 1-1+ macro? 'Tell em their dreamin' from a favourite Aussie movie 'The Castle'.
 
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