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OM System 90mm Macro Focus Hunting

  
 
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p.1 #1 · OM System 90mm Macro Focus Hunting


Hi folks,

I bought the 90mm macro a while back and it's a terrific lens. Recently I was trying to focus on a Spotted Lantern Fly ($%*!!) and I could not get it to lock focus. I checked the switch, moved it to different positions, and it kept hunting. This is was in good light during the day. It was a fairly low contrast setting with the gray flies against a gray tree trunk.

The following day I used it on some beetles and same issue, but entirely different lighting (bright daylight with sharp contrast).

I tried it again today on a coin in daylight and no issue.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced sporadic focus hunting with the lens?

By the way, the lens is absolutely stellar for optical quality and is a great long portrait lens.

Chuck



Oct 10, 2025 at 02:34 PM
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p.1 #2 · OM System 90mm Macro Focus Hunting


I believe all macro lenses focus-hunt more because of the much shallower in-focus distances.

If your subject is not moving, you should be using S-AF mode or Manual Focus mode, not C-AF mode.







Oct 10, 2025 at 07:12 PM
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p.1 #3 · OM System 90mm Macro Focus Hunting


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Oct 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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p.1 #4 · OM System 90mm Macro Focus Hunting


Imagemaster wrote:
I believe all macro lenses focus-hunt more because of the much shallower in-focus distances.

If your subject is not moving, you should be using S-AF mode or Manual Focus mode, not C-AF mode.


Yep, I never use C-AF period. I'm not an action photographer for the most part.

What I found out oddly enough is my lens wasn't bayoneted on completely and it was evidently causing some poor communication between lens and body.

Cheers,
Chuck



Oct 11, 2025 at 04:33 PM







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