That's good news, because it means I can save a load of dollars when I buy an adapter, because Panasonic's is much pricier. Are Panasonic's shake sensors built into the lenses and not the bodies?
I had thought they were controlled from the bodies, because the stabilization mode selection is controlled from the body's menu on my Panny G2 and there's no switch on the lens. Did the G1 use a switch on the lenses like the 4/3 Panny DSLRs did? regards, Anthony On 16 August 2012 03:44, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: (older stuff snipped) > > Actually, the FourThirds to Micro-FourThirds adapters are identical in > function. Panasonic's in-lens IS on their Elmarit-D 14-50 and 14-150 > mm lenses for FourThirds format works fine on the Olympus bodies > (although it is unneeded for all the modern ones which have IBIS). > Panasonic only produced four lenses for FourThirds SLRs anyway, and > only three of them have OIS (the Summilux-D 25mm does not). > > Olympus bodies simply don't have the firmware for controlling the > different options of the Panasonic OIS, just like they don't have the > firmware to allow the Summilux and early 14-50/2.8-3.5 or > 14-150/3.5-5.6 lenses' aperture rings. The OIS is switched on and off > by a mechanical switch on the lenses, and operates only in Mode 1 > (continuous). (The aperture is controlled by standard Olympus on-body > controls.) Did a fine job with my E-1. > > All the FourThirds SLR lenses have been fully usable on all > Micro-FourThirds bodies from the beginning with both Panasonic and > Olympus adapters, with the exception of auto-focus capabilities. All > Olympus bodies will support autofocus functions, albeit not > particularly quickly, where Panasonic felt that the AF was poor enough > on most that they limited support to those that at least had some CDAF > logic built into them on the earliest bodies. > > The latest Micro-FourThirds bodies from Olympus manage the FourThirds > SLR lenses' AF functions more efficiently so AF performance has been > improved. My understanding is that they might implement a PDAF module > in an adapter to supplement the CDAF and improve focusing speed, like > Sony has done. > > Whew, has this discussion moved off the track from the Si ... ;-) > -- > 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.
