Thanks, those photos show it off very well. > On 1 Sep 2019, at 02:03, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > > 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 <pdm...@gmail.com> 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 > 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.
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