Hi Bob! I have a lot of experience with the E-M1 ... still have mine. It and the E-M1 II are truly excellent cameras.
The E-M1 (and mark II) differ from all the other Olympus bodies in that they are the only ones that have the phase detect sencels on the imager chip and focus the FourThirds SLR lenses better than any of the other models do. The Olympus MMF-3 (FT->mFT adapter with weather sealing) is an excellent deal for these lenses and does exactly the right thing. My ZD 35 Macro, ZD 11-22, and ZD 50-200 lenses have been the mainstay of what I used on the E-M1 ... All superb performers that focus quickly and accurately on the E-M1. They never focused quite as crisply on the E-PL7 or (borrowed) E-M5 or my Lumix G1. These lenses are/were considered by Olympus to be part of the E-M1 lens lineup, and they perform as well with the E-M1 as with the E-1, E-3, and E-5 ... or better. With respect to other lenses, M-mount lenses are often not at their best adapted to these bodies. Olympus uses a very thick sensor stack that is often at odds with RF lens designs. I discovered that the relatively inexpensive, consumer-grade Olympus ZD 25 out-performed my Leica Elmar-M 24mm quite noticeably on the E-M1. After that, I basically abandoned using M-mount lenses on these bodies. Adapted SLR lenses, like the Pentax K mounts, do a good bit better than M-mount lenses. I tried a large number of different adapters over the years—finally gave up and bought Novoflex adapters for Leica R and Nikon F mounts (I didn't have any Pentax K lenses left at that point). Pricey but they worked correctly and the unit by unit variability went away. In the end I found that adapting other mount lenses, other than FourThirds SLR mount, just wasn't all that great on the E-M1 series bodies and just used the three lenses above all the time, and a couple of mFT lenses. The Micro-FourThirds lenses I used the most were the newer version Panasonic-Leica Summilux-DG 25mm f/1.4 ASPH (much more compact than the SLR lens above), the Olympus M.Zuiko 75mm f/1.8, and, my favorite, the Panasonic-Leica Macro-Elmarit-DG 45mm f/2.8 ASPH. It's a great system. The E-M1 bodies are configurable as all heck with over 190 options in the menus...! Take your time learning the options and you can dial the camera in to precisely the configuration that works best for you. AND THEN: Write it down! It makes re-setting everything so much easier if you have to do a full reset at any point. :) Best, G > Bob Pdml <[email protected]> escribió: > > ...which is the best make? > > I had a small windfall, so I have bought me an Olympus E-M1 II + 12-40/2.8 > lens to take cycling with me, replacing the Fuji X20 that is becoming > increasingly difficult to peer through. > > I have already an Olympus E-3, which I haven't used for years, and a set > of very good lenses, so I will probably buy the official Olympus adapter > for those, if there is such a thing. > > I would also like to put my Leica and Voigtlander M-mount lenses on, and I > have a couple of Pentax lenses too, so why not? > > There seems to be no end of presumably Chinese-made adapters out there, > but I have no idea if any of them are any good. So if those of you who > engage in body-glass promiscuity of this persuasion could give me some tips > I'd be very grateful. > > Ta, > Bob -- 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.
