Olympus makes extremely good lenses. I've always found them to be on par with Zeiss and Leica lenses, at least their pro-line lenses. :)
I looked through photos I've posted on Flickr made with the E-M1 and 50-200mm lens. Seems I use the EC-14 teleconverter with this lens a lot of the time, netting the FF equivalent of a 70 to 560 mm f/4 to f/4.5, or something like that. With the E-M1's IS, it's real easy to get very sharp hand-held results even at very long effective focal lengths. Here are a few shots I posted to flickr: ZD 50-200 on E-M1: https://flic.kr/p/nsWN7N https://flic.kr/p/i39bMH ZD 50-200 + EC14 on E-M1: https://flic.kr/p/imhXsa https://flic.kr/p/imiAHk https://flic.kr/p/imhWRR https://flic.kr/p/imixMa https://flic.kr/p/imi5jf https://flic.kr/p/imhVzx https://flic.kr/p/imi4uE The EC14 is a *perfect* optical match to the 50-200 zoom lens, especially the early one like I have. It actually performs better with the teleconverter in place than without, particularly at near full aperture. What works on the Olympus cameras in way of M-mount lenses can be quite variable. Longer focal lengths (35 and up) do a lot better than shorter focal lengths. One lens that surprises is the Pentax-L 43mm f/1.9 Special (the LTM version of the FA43mm Limited). This lens, because it is basically an SLR lens fitted in a Leica thread mount, produces remarkably good results on nearly any body I've tried it on. Of course, it comes out to be a nice portrait tele on FourThirds format. I use it on the Leica CL quite a lot now, it's a short portrait tele on that camera (effective about 65mm FF equivalent FoV). Enjoy, G > On Aug 31, 2019, at 5:03 PM, Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -- 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.
