Interesting reading Godfrey, many thanks. >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.
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