As Chuck said "You have a rich taste in lenses." Matthew, you'll fit in
just fine here!
Martin
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chuck Norcutt
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 6:45 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OM lenses
What Garth said. You have a rich taste in lenses. Fine for the OM's
but not so great for E-things. Of the lenses listed I only own a Zuiko
24/2.8 and a Tokina 17/3.5 and wouldn't part with either one since they
represent the widest lenses I own. I have some Kiron zooms in the same
general focal length range as the Zuiko 35-80/2.8 which are good
performers but probably have a value of about 5-10% of the Zuiko.
When you asked the question did you realize that the 4 lenses you picked
were some of rarest and most expensive around?
Chuck Norcutt
Garth Wood wrote:
> Matthew Granger wrote:
>> Cheers Chuck
>>
>> I am really looking for a wide/very wide angle like 18/21/24mm. Also
>> the 35-80mm f2.8 zoom.
>>
>> And it would need to be sent to Australia.
>
> Matthew:
>
> Each of the prime lenses you mention are certainly wides or very wides
> in 35mm format, but if you mount them on a Four-Thirds format camera,
> you lose that width, because only 1/4 of the image circle gets
> effectively projected onto the imaging chip of the Oly DSLR. Thus, an
> 18mm OM-mount lens, on the Oly digi, would only give you the same FOV
> as a 36mm lens would on a 35mm film camera. Since the 18/3.5 OM-mount
> lens is one of the rarest and most expensive of the OM primes, this
> would be a financially inefficient way of trying to get "wide" on an
Oly DSLR.
>
> And the 35-80/2.8? Has a FOV of 70-160mm (35mm equivalent) on an Oly
> DSLR. It's also a rare and costly lens, even used.
>
> If you're trying to go wide, *really* wide, on an Oly DSLR, you need
> to think about buying the new Digital Zuikos designed for the Oly
DSLR.
> Sorry, but mounting old OM wides on an Oly DSLR is just not that great
> an idea.
>
> Now on the other hand, the more "telephoto-like" your old OM-mount
> lens is, the better (on average) it'll perform on an Oly DSLR, because
> such lenses are already "telecentric" designs, and they better suit
> the way the imaging chip accepts light. My 100/2.0 OM Zuiko is a
> fabulous performer on the E-1 and E-410 I own, but the 21/2.0 is
simply "okay"
> (and is basically a "normal" FOV lens in the Four-Thirds format).
>
>
> Garth
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