You'd have to mount the 8mm f2.8 zuiko Fisheye on the MF-1 adapter to
get the equivalent of a 16mm on the digital. As others have said, you
are better off going with an original Digital Zuiko for your wide angle
choice.
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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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