On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:15 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Very positive. I just like to point out a bit of hypocrisy, the reviewer > glosses over the fact that Olympus m43 lenses are thin on the ground by > pointing out the lenses from other manufactures and huge number of legacy > lenses usable /with/ /an/ /adapter/. On the other hand pointing out the > huge number of legacy lenses available to Pentax /without/ an adapter is > often met with derision. Just sayin'. Still it looks like a very nice > little camera.
Hmm. Going to http://four-thirds.org/en/microft/lens_chart.html, I see - 15 zooms covering 7 to 300 mm focal lengths (EFL 14-600mm) - 13 primes covering from 8mm Fisheye to 75mm (EFL 24 to 150mm, 7 of them f/2 or faster) (one specialist lens specifically targeting 3D capture) from four manufacturers (Olympus, Panasonic, Voigtländer, and Sigma), all in Micro-FourThirds mount. Never mind the two dozen or so Olympus, Panasonic, and Sigma lenses available for FourThirds SLR which work very nicely with the provided dedicated adapters. I'd hardly call that "thin on the ground". And then there are all the Nikon, Pentax K + thread, Leica, Contax, Canon, Olympus, Exakta, Konica, and Minolta SLR lenses that can be used with simple adapters, and all the Leica Thread Mount and M-Bayonet lenses from Leica, Zeiss, Voigtländer, and the various Russian makes that can be used with simple adapters as well. And others (C-mount, etc) as well. The huge array of available lenses useable with Micro-FourThirds and other TTL electronic cameras is one of their strongest features. It's *much* broader than what's available for Pentax. When I was shooting with the G1, my favorite lenses to use on it were manual focus SLR lenses used with an adapter. It worked even better that way then fitting the same older lenses to my Pentax K10D did. -- 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.
