Great photos Doug, especially the 2nd.
What adaptor are you using, do you have a picture of it?
I'm finding that my Nikkor lenses aren't as wide when I use them with the adaptor. For example my 24mm lens is more like a 35mm lens, which is a bit of a pain when you want a wider shot. I think it may have some thing to do with the length of the adapter, but all the adaptors I have seen look the same.
Your 20mm lens looks good, I might need to add that to my collection.
Paul
Paul,
Thanks for the kind words. The second was one of those funny shots. I was busy taking shots of Yosemite Falls across Cook's Meadow including a funky dead tree. And this seed caught my eye as I turned around to head on down the valley floor. I zipped back back to the car, and got the lens combo I needed.
I have the jinfinance nikon f adapter for my nikon lenses. For this macro, I used the Nikkor 20mm f3.5 WITH a K1 extension ring (somewhere around a 12mm ring) thus turning it into a wide angle macro lens (with VERY little working distance).
Of course the 20 behaves like a 40 with the 2x crop on the G1, but by the end of the day, I was having enough fun with the lens combo that I ended up promoting it to a pouch hanging on my belt for easy access.
This particular Nikkor 20mm is reputed to be excellent at shorter distances, okay at infinity, and very good at handling flare. I got the extension ring macro trick a long time ago from Bjorn Roslett (
www.naturfotograf.com).
By the way, our 24mm is actually behaving more like a 48mm (like a normal lens on film); there just aren't many primes out there that will get you as wide as the 24mm was on film. Your best bet is to stick with the Panasonic 7-14 or Olympus 9-18. I'd love a Panasonic or Olympus 12mm prime...
Doug