Of the Fuji X, the XE-1 seems to be the sweet spot. A couple of folks I talk with bought an X-Pro1, then an XE-1, and then sold the X-Pro1, citing that the EVF was both better and more useful to them than the X-Pro1's EVF, and you can always fit an OVF to the XE-1 if you want an optical finder for some lens. I have little interest in the Fujis for myself, but I know lots of people like them.
But it seems to be the season. I got back into Micro-FourThirds with a used E-PL1 a few months back (bought cheap and for fun) because I still had some oddity lenses that only work on mFT: it's amazing how good a camera the little junker is despite its many limitations as the then "bottom-of-the-line" status. After some consideration, I ordered one of the newly announced Olympus E-M1 bodies yesterday, should be here in October. It's the natural follow-on to my E-1 and E-5 SLRs, but with the short Micro-FourThirds mount register it will let me use all my FT SLR lenses as well as all my Leica M-Bayonet stuff too. So of course, I need lens adapters for my Leica M and R lenses. I ordered a pair of Novoflex adapters ... The Metabones adapter that I acquired for M->mFT is junk, I'm returning it, and the Kipon I got for R->FT SLR is ok but has more play than I like. Typical inexpensive adapter stuff. The Novoflex are the best available, the Voigtländer and Rayqual are right behind them. I found one Novoflex adapter used at a big discount, so the two as a pair cost me about what the Rayqual adapters would. Fun fun fun. I'll be spending the next month reading the E-M1 manual ... this is, like the other Olympus pro cameras, a complex camera with LOTs of customizations and features to work with. Hopefully Lightroom will be enabled for its raw files by the time it arrives, but if not I'll be learning how to get the most out of its JPEG engine for a bit. G "Equipment is transitory. Photographs endure." On Sep 15, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > I am currently researching lens adaptors and compatibility etc for some > of my legacy Pentax lenses for use on a Fuji X-E1 camera. The X-E1 is a > mirrorless 1.5x sensor camera with no optical viewfinder (shock, horror) > but I would like something to get me back into messing with lenses > again. Hoping to pick one up used, soon. > > I came across this article on The Online Photographer site by Jim Hughes > and thought it interesting, I link it here in case others find the same. > His photographic hardware priorities mimmic mine and I found his insight > useful. > > <http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/06/fuji-x-e1-the-keeper.html> > > or > > <http://tinyurl.com/nod5to2> -- 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.
