simonclivehughes
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I have one of these lenses and I'm wondering if it is worth spending $150 to get an adaptor to be able to use it on my G1 and GH1? The lens appears to be almost mint. Any comments?
Cheers,
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one of the Zuiko OM lenses I bought was the 21mm f3.5 ... I was thinking that this would double up as a compact little 'normal' lens for the G1 and when stuck onto a 35mm film body would give me wonderful wide angle ability (wider than the kit lens) with adding just a light film body.At this point, for the rest of the lenses, I'm leaning toward the Zeiss 21mm f2.8 and possibly the Zeiss 100mm f2 lens.
when using the kit lens at 45mm there isn't a lot of difference to a 50.The main issue for me though is the speed of those lenses. I'm looking for better shallow DOF and IQ and background quality at those shallow apertures,
No, I'm not mistaking it that way... I know the 50 will act as a 100mm FOV lens, it's the speed I'm looking for over the kit lens. I want to be able to isolate against a nice bokeh background.Now if you're thinking of a 50 as it looks on full frame 35mm then I'm afraid it'll be really hard to get that look you'll need an f0.95 25mm to get that shallow 50f1.8 look you can get with a 35mm camera
Not really. All the dof tables and such are good only for perfect lenses. In real life situations, this is different. It all depends on the lens you use and the light more than the aperture.Now if you're thinking of a 50 as it looks on full frame 35mm then I'm afraid it'll be really hard to get that look you'll need an f0.95 25mm to get that shallow 50f1.8 look you can get with a 35mm camera
well interestingly I find that in real life it does. For example I once wrote this page showing the differences of DoF between a Nikon Coolpix (with a 2/3 sensor) and a 20D using lenses of the same angle of view.Not really. All the dof tables and such are good only for perfect lenses. In real life situations, this is different. .
but I'm not concerned with them, only what I see on the images ... as I posted example of above.Pellicle, Again, the dof tables (there are no "rules", they were all based on assumptions and approximations) do not consider many