I have a Zuiko 50 as well as a Lumix 45-200. I'll try these as well. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have noticed on the E-P1 that it is easier to manually focus the old >> Tak 55 than the micro43 Lumix 20. I wondered why this is true and >> never considered that the 20 is focus by wire. Interesting. > > It's also almost three times the focal length, which makes it much > easier to see the focus transition point with it than with a > wide-normal lens due to the depth of field. Also, the Lumix 20/1.7 is > physically too short and difficult for me to get my fingers on the > focusing ring comfortably for easy focusing operation. (The Ricoh GXR > A12 28mm lens has a similar problem due to the physical size of the > lens. With the A12 50mm it is much easier to grasp and operate the > focusing ring... !) > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > 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. >
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