Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-09-01 Thread Bob Pdml
Thanks, those photos show it off very well. > On 1 Sep 2019, at 02:03, Godfrey DiGiorgi 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

Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
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,

Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Bob Pdml
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

Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Bob Pdml
Thanks > On 31 Aug 2019, at 20:52, Larry Colen wrote: > > I was recently given an EPL1 and picked up a couple of Fotasy adapters, > probably because they were the least expensive I could find. They seem to > work fine. > > Bob Pdml wrote on 8/31/19 12:32 PM: >> ...which is the best make? >>

Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Bob Pdml
Thanks. That's made of aluminium, which isn't a good match with steel... not on bicycles, anyway, and I don't want to be smearing copper grease on my bayonet before I mount. I read somewhere that the aluminium ones leave microscopic splinters in the lens mouth, and I think I'd rather not take

Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Bob Pdml
Thanks. Which adapter are you using? > On 31 Aug 2019, at 22:54, Vier wrote: > > Before you buy anything, try to do some test shots with the adapter, > autofocus speed varies A LOT with different lenses. > > My main camera is an Olympus EM5, and with adapted 4/3 lenses autofocus > speed and

Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
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

Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 31/8/19, Steve Cottrell, discombobulated, unleashed: >Quality is good and no loose bits on mine. Sturdy release mech, good >fit, what's not to like. Cheap enough that I bought an adapter for each >lens and left them on. I should add that all of my lenses are manual focus - I don't own any

Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 31/8/19, Bob Pdml, discombobulated, unleashed: >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. I

Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Vier
Before you buy anything, try to do some test shots with the adapter, autofocus speed varies A LOT with different lenses. My main camera is an Olympus EM5, and with adapted 4/3 lenses autofocus speed and accuracy is terrible at best. Half the times I can’t lock focus, and the times I get it right

Re: OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Larry Colen
I was recently given an EPL1 and picked up a couple of Fotasy adapters, probably because they were the least expensive I could find. They seem to work fine. Bob Pdml wrote on 8/31/19 12:32 PM: ...which is the best make? I had a small windfall, so I have bought me an Olympus E-M1 II +

OT: Micro 4/3rds adapters

2019-08-31 Thread Bob Pdml
...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