Hi Brian:
Welcome to the list. Fine questions you brought with you :-)
<< * the shutter speed ring on the body -- should it turn somewhat
freely, or is there usually strong
resistance? this one seems to move a bit stiff, but then i dont know
how it should be when new. >>
In between is what it should be. Take the camera to a old fashioned
(not Ritz) camera store and see what an experienced camera salesman
(look for one at least 40 years old) would say. Better yet, ask a
repair specialist. When the ring is too loose, you loose the click
stops, especially at the slow end and it might be an indication of
impact damage from the jarring on the lens. When too stiff, it could
have had something spilled on it - esp. a soft drink.
<< * regards the shift lenses -- i've seen it written that the effective
angle of view increases w/ the
amount of shift. (The 35mm at max is ~28, & the 24mm is 18mm). Is this
a property of all shift lenses? >>
You still get a 35mm angle of view at any position. Only by putting two
images together from either end of the shift range do you increase that
angle.
<< * Would the Zuiko 35mm rate highly among all shift lenses on the
market? (i'm trying to decide for
which system to purchase a lens for architecture: the Oly, a Nikon 28mm
w/ adapter to Minolta, or the
50mm for Mamiya 645. I'm leaning towards the Mamiya simply for the >
neg size..) >>
Well, that is a hard one. Park yourself in a library with 1980s issues
of Modern Photography and you might be able to answer it from their lens
tests. The latest sample I posted at:
http://members.aol.com/olympusom/lenstests/default.htm
holds its own pretty well against the 24mm Shift results. If you happen
upon a Nikon 28mm shift lens, I'd be glad to test it for you. I had one
here and sold it before I could motivate myself to test it :-(
<< * lastly, at the risk of bringing up well-trodden turf on this list,
what are the listie's favouries for
best lens while being *most* compact? i'd like to add a wideangle, a
35mm, and 'praps a 100mm to my
kit. >>
My take:
1. Get a 50mm f/1.4 with a greater than 1,100,000 serial number, or make
sure you have a multicoated 50mm f/1.8
2. Compact and best are usually mutually exclusive terms in the Zuiko
lens lineup.
3. Think about a 35-105mm f/3.5~4.5 Zuiko rather than a 35mm and 100mm
prime.
Gary Reese
Las Vegas, NV
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