Of course. As I said, it is a question of personal preferences. Funny enough, I now use more the FA 35mm f2 on digital than I used to do with film. I think that it is just coherent in my case.
But, then, in m4/3, the same 24mm produces an AOV equivalent to a 48mm on film. Well, if you like this field of view, great, but, in any case, if you used to use the lens for landscapes, now you HAVE TO add a wider lens to the system and use the 24mm for other purposes. And suddenly, for some people, the 24mm won't have the same appeal that it used to, so, again for some people, the idea of buying a new system in order to be able to use the lense probably wasn't as good as it seemed. This was my point, with a big YMMV. Regards, Jaume ----- Mensaje original ---- De: Peter Alling <[email protected]> Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Enviado: jueves, 15 de enero, 2009 17:42:04 Asunto: Re: Panasonic G1 ... example photo @ ISO 1000 The 35mm lens on 35mm film AOV is pretty useful you know, that's what you'll get with the 24mm on the APS-C format cameras. I find I'm using it a lot more than I expected. -----Original Message----- >From: Jaume Lahuerta <[email protected]> >Sent: Jan 15, 2009 11:26 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Panasonic G1 ... example photo @ ISO 1000 > >OK, I see your point but I'll try to explain mine, which I think is >complementary rather than contrary. > >It seems that a lot of the interest in this camera / system is the ability to >use any kind of old lenses on it through adaptors. Regarding this, I have a >colleague at work that collects all kind of old lenses, specially m42 >screwmounts, and uses them with the *ist Ds that I sold to him and in a EOS >350D. I told him about this system and his response was "yes, but they will >look as 2 x focal length, so no more wide angles. I am not interested on this". > >And then I remembered about my Pentax A24/2.8, that was one of my favorites >when shooting film since it gave me a field of view that none of my other >lenses could give. However, I have almost never used (except for comparison >tests) in digital due to its 'new' field of view. > >That's just what I wanted to say: be careful if you are considering this >system in order to use your old lenses on it because the 'conversion factor' >(or whatever you want to call it) is greater that on APS-C. Having said that, >I realize that for some people this may be an advantage, but for others, like >my colleague, it was a clear disadvantage when using his old lenses. If you >like a lens just for its pure optical quality, then fine, it will preserve it. >But if you like a lens for the combination of optical quality and field of >view (which was my case with the 24mm), then the game is over. > >Just wanted to make sure that, whatever category the readers fit, they know in >advance about this. > >Regards, >Jaume > > > >----- Mensaje original ---- >De: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> >Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Enviado: jueves, 15 de enero, 2009 16:32:35 >Asunto: Re: Panasonic G1 ... example photo @ ISO 1000 > >I absolutely despise all this "crop factor" nonsense. It's so ridiculous. > >There's no such thing as a crop factor. Field of view is a property of a focal >length combined with a format. Normal on 35 film is 50mm, normal on FourThirds >is 25mm, normal on 645 is 75mm, etc. That's all. > >My FourThirds cameras include field of view choices from 89 to 4.4 degrees on >the diagonal, using lenses with focal lengths from 11 to 280 mm. A Pentax >M50/1.4 provides an excellent long-portrait-tele field of view. > >80-90% of my G1 photos to date have been made with the 25mm lenses I have. A >near perfect kit for the G1, for my photography, will have the lenses 7-14/4, >20/1.7, 25/2.8 (and f/1.4), 40/1.4 and 75/2.5 in it. I don't have them all >yet ... two aren't available yet ... but that's where it's going. > >Godfrey > > >On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:56 AM, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: > >> Before doing something that you can regret, remember the conversion factor >> that 4/3 and m4/3 introduces in a 35mm lens, which is 2 instead of 1.5 for >> APS-C. > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. > > > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
