On Sun, Sep 08, 2013, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sep 7, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sure, but there's nothing like the 8mm fisheye you can get for APS-C for >> 12mm/e. For most purposes, you're correct that's sufficient, but people >> who really care about extreme wide-angle are likely to be less satisfied >> with m4/3. > > "For most purposes ..." Don't be ridiculous. > > A fish-eye lens is a specialty lens, and the ONLY wide-angle lens > focal length not listed in native Micro-FourThirds mount. Perhaps > that's because there's a superb fish-eye lens in FourThirds SLR mount, > which work on mFT bodies with any of the four available, dedicated > Panasonic and Olympus FourThirds to Micro-FourThirds mount adapters > for 100% full function operation.
The point is that m4/3 8mm is 16mm/e. > Your comment sounds like it fits one of the categories in Ctein's most recent > column on "The Online Photographer": > http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/09/bad-science-vs-good-science-a-guide-for-the-layperson-part-1.html > > Check out the "God of the Gaps" category. ;-) <shrug> Some people regularly claim that they want FF over APS-C due to wide-angle versus crop-factor -- given that Marnie didn't even know that m4/3 has 2x crop factor compared with APS-C's 1.5x, I think it was entirely reasonable to mention the wide-angle issue. I certainly don't think it'll play a significant role in her decision given her telephoto preference (or if it does, it'll have a reverse significance). Side note: most of my shooting is also telephoto (except for macro), so I'm definitely not grinding any axe favoring wide-angle and I consider the m4/3 crop factor a plus myself because it makes for lighter and smaller telephoto lenses. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- 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.
