Thanks, Godfrey. I like the Olympuses (Olympoi?), and the lenses are really excellent - it has felt rather a shame not to have used the FT ones for so long.
I had a dig around after sending the email, and discovered that Oly, not surprisingly, make an adapter, the one you mention, so I have ordered one from Amazon. I have the 11-22, 14-54 and 50-200 lenses so it will be interesting to see how they do, particularly the 50-200, which is the only one outside the range of the lens I bought with the body today. I also discovered the Novoflex for Leica M mount, which seems like the best option, but I'll hold off getting it until I've played with the rest of the stuff. It could be valuable to have it for my Leica 50/2, Voigtlander 75/1.8 and L 90/2.8 to extend the focal lengths available to me. With the shorter lenses, particularly the L 35/1.4 it would be nice to see the thin dof. But when I first switched to digital and used my beautiful Contax lenses with adapters I learned how much can be lost in translation, so I won't rush to buy a Novoflex, but will see if I can try one out first. I see Voigtlander also do an M-MFT adapter which seems to be well thought of, so I'll also consider one of those. 190 options is way too many for me. I know what I like, and I try to keep it simple, so I've already read the manual and set up the camera; I'll have a play with it tomorrow. Not a bad idea to write it down though. Cheers, B > On 31 Aug 2019, at 23:45, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > > 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 <pdm...@gmail.com> escribió: >> >> ...which is the best make? >> >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
