On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless I'm missing something, there is no currently-available 600mm lens > for either 4/3 or m4/3, so right there you're talking about crop factor > (given the 300mm lenses available). It would seem that you're making my > argument for me. ;-) >
I was referring to the equivalent FoVs ... 14mm EFoV to 600mm EFoV ... for YOUR sake as I assume you are not familiar with FourThirds FoVs. The focal lengths are 7mm to 300mm. A normal lens is 25mm. > Given that, I think the crop factor issue is particularly important when > you're comparing cameras with different sensors and trying to evaluate > lens availability. I mean, you need to know that for m4/3 you want a > 45mm lens for a "standard portrait" lens. Granted, but that's one of the things that make FourThirds particularly apropos for Marnie's aim. A fast 45mm lens is a smaller and lighter than a 90mm lens. One of my favorite combinations with the E-1 is a Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 or Leica-R 90mm f/2 to net a 170-180mm EFoV with a fast aperture. My old Nikon film setup for that was a 180mm f/2.8 lens. The combination of E-1 + Summicron-R 90/2 is half the size and two-thirds the weight of the Nikon F3 + 180/2.8. A favored 70-200mm EFoV zoom lens in FourThirds is something like a 35-100mm lens. G -- 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.
