Hello Marc,
Good to hear from you! Thanks for the nice hands-on report. Don't you
think the 100/2 is a bit big for the E-P1?
I'm curious to try out with the pen 70/2. I had a chance to get one
together with some unanounced extra's: the original Pen-F OM adapter
and a Pen-F extension ring set.
How was manual focussing with the 100/2 in bright sun with just the
screen (and what aperture did you use)? The 17mm here looks good and
sharp at f5.6. I subscribed for a test-week, but don't have too high
hopes of winning :).
Iwert
2009/6/26 marc simon <>:
> Hi all,
> I had the opportunity to "touch and try" the E-P1...at Olympus Belgium.
> It's a nice camera and a new opportunity to use our beloved Zuiko. We
> are probably not "the target": during the presentation of the New Pen
> the "Belgian Boss" make a little history of the introduction of the Pen
> (the original one...) and he said that with that introduction the
> percentage of "Ladies" using Olympus cameras jump from 2% to 20%... he
> doesn't say it's a "Lady Camera"...but when you look at the camera,
> especially the white one, it's clear that an effort has been made to
> have a product different of other cameras...and the look is something
> important in this new product, the leather body jacket and the leather
> strap add more style to the already nice object...
> But it's a nice object which made nice pictures and with the adapters we
> could use our fine lenses: there is even two way to adapt Zuiko lenses,
> with the OM adapter and with 4/3 adapter, plus the OM>4/3 adapter, I've
> checked with an adapter with the chip for focus confirmation (from
> jinfinance) but it doesn't seems to work...it was a rapid
> test...must be confirmed. I had only my Zuiko 100 f:2 with me it really
> a nice combination, probably one Iwert could use if he have the
> opportunity :)
> I've also tested the Digital Zuiko 7-14 and 50-200 but only inside, I've
> tested the Zuiko outside in manual focus, the sun was bright but the
> focusing wasn't too difficult, but I guess it could be more difficult
> with other lenses, my 500 mirror was at home...:)
> One other interesting use of the new Pen is the video HD, you could zoom
> or change your focus during your video recording, and the stereo sound
> is really good...imagine some macro lenses (Zuiko of course) on the
> camera...and I imagine the butterfly aficionados of the list using it to
> record some nice sequences (limited to 7' duration per sequence but it's
> already a long time...)
> Of course I've tested the "original lenses" the 14-42 and the "already
> famous" 17mm...they are both good in my opinion and I've made some
> images to track the Chromatic Abberation...
> you could judge by yourself on some of those images at
> http://styleolympus.fotopic.net/c1717514.html
> There is an HDMI output...but I've asked, you could only use it in play
> mode...:( so no chance of an "ersatz of an electronic viewfinder"...it's
> of course the greatest limitation for me. Already a good camera at this
> moment, but a little bit expensive for me even if I was really impressed
> by the video mode.
> I have raw images but at this moment not yet the occasion to use them.
> The availability of the camera is expected in the second half of
> July here in Belgium.
> regards
> marc
> bois-de-villers Belgium
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