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Title: New Body, Old Lens
Post by: Bassmanster on July 28, 2010, 10:19:37 am

So I bought an Olympus E-620, an adapter and put my old 50 1.4 lens on it.  It's a 70s lens without all the modern coatings.  It's a little soft and even a little gauzy wide open.  I'm really liking the combination of old and new tech.  Manual focus, obviously and I miss focus a lot, but still cool.  It acts like a longer lens on the 4/3 sensor, but that's actually good for portraiture.  I shoot one stop off wide open and can easily shoot indoors w/o flash.

Friend's daughter:

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs053.snc4/35005_1317362781114_1442097742_30720636_79798_n.jpg)

Title: Re: New Body, Old Lens
Post by: simonallaway on July 28, 2010, 10:42:11 am

Very nice indeed. I don't mind softness when it looks that good :)

I can appreciate the need to shoot indoors with no flash. I hate flash, but my DSLR isn't so hot at high ISO and the fastest lens I have is an f2.8. I've never even bothered to look at prices for an f1.4 50mm for a Nikon as I fear it'll be 4 figures ;)

Title: Re: New Body, Old Lens
Post by: Bassmanster on July 28, 2010, 10:58:22 am

Thanks.

That's the other thing.  Old MF lenses are cheap!  :smiley:

Title: Re: New Body, Old Lens
Post by: Bassmanster on August 09, 2010, 08:39:21 am

I see they have an M adapter for the Olympus Pens and the Panasonic Micro 4/3.

Hmmmm.  Can I get a Noctilux for under $7K?   :laugh:

Title: Re: New Body, Old Lens
Post by: Bassmanster on August 09, 2010, 08:48:48 am

http://vimeo.com/6664924 (http://vimeo.com/6664924)

Title: Re: New Body, Old Lens
Post by: jjasilli on August 11, 2010, 09:45:14 am

 :smiley: