On Sep 15, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> In truth, I would love the FX 14mm but can't spend the money right now. > I can afford a used EX-1 and I have the A*85/1.4 sitting in my bag. I > tend to use that lens wide open, so the X-E1 would seem to provide a > suitable platform on which to receive the photons. > > Similarly, the 17/4 is a wacky, weird and wonderful lens (anyone here > ever used one? it is so much fun) and again, would find use on the X-E1. > > When I can afford the 14mm then I've got AF and all the delights that > brings. Matched up with an X100s, it would be a lovely combination of > hardware. Quality lenses are complex things. While I'm quite certain from personal experience using them that, overall, the lenses designed for a particular camera system generally work best on that camera system, when you get to really good lenses the distinctions become rather more subtle than that. I ran around with the Olympus E-1 fitted with my Leica Summicron-R 50mm f/2 a couple of weekends ago ... it produced beautiful results, quite different from what the (also superb) ZD 50mm f/2 Macro produces. For me, there's a place for all of this stuff. I had one of the Pentax 17/4 lenses a while back, adapting it to the Panasonic G1. The combination produced some very interesting photographs, a couple of which won some exhibition awards. It's not so fish eye on the smaller and more square FourThirds format, though: it will likely be more entertaining on APS-C due to the more oblong format proportion. 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.
