Oly is chic, Pentax is not. After the scandal, Oly even has a darkside ;-)
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
