New Body, Old Lens

[Bassmanster]

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:

[simonallaway]

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 ;)

[Bassmanster]

Thanks.

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

[Bassmanster]

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?   

[Bassmanster]

http://vimeo.com/6664924

[jjasilli]