Best lenses for Pen F/FT?

[M like Leica M6]

The size of a 4/3 sensor is 13x17.3mm. The size of a Pen F negative is 18x24mm. Even if someone would make an adapter the lenses of the 4/3 world not work for half-frame negatives.

 

[tonal1]

there goes another pipe dream down the tube 🙂

 

[Doug]

Further, as to µ4/3 lenses, I was surprised to see in Photozone.de tests that these lenses often/generally have severe optical defects that are automatically "corrected" using the camera's lens database and processor. Likely less expensive to deal with distortion and fall-off this way than by correcting these issues in building the lens. Already we've seen some of this on a lesser scale in other digital cameras, even including the Leica M8/M9.

 

[flip]

Reminds me of win-modems. Modems that fail unless corrected under windows. The wave of the future - raw crap in and sort it out in post process by the CPU. gads

 

[M like Leica M6]

CD-, DVD-, Blu-ray- and anything-else players do the same thing. The most important element in that technology is error correction.

Even the Hasselblad H3 series uses software correction for at least one Zeiss wide-angle lens. Zeiss just made a lens without compromises except one or two parameters. These are completely corrected by software. The result is the best of both worlds.

In cheap cameras, of course, the manufacturers just put some heavy makeup on the results of their cheap lenses.

 

[Sonnar2]

Sorry to say as a friend of the PEN F/FT series, the best digital camera to use the PEN F lenses spells SONY NEX.

 

[shadowfox]

Sorry to say as a friend of the PEN F/FT series, the best digital camera to use the PEN F lenses spells SONY NEX.

No need to be sorry for voicing a personal preference 🙂

 

[flyingpalm]

Sorry but have to show off my 38/2.8 pancake.😀

 

[flyingpalm]

And here is what I have right now.

 

[M like Leica M6]

BTW, if you lost the rear caps for your Pen FT lenses, the rear caps for modern Micro 4/3 lenses fit.

http://www.apug.org/forums/forum52/84438-rear-caps-olympus-pen-ft-lenses.html

 

[flip]

Just ran a roll with a few 60/1.5 shots.
One for the season as long as it's posted:

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

OK, sure, here's another winter 60/1.5 pic! This one on the E-P2.


Tracks by mabel.sound, on Flickr

 

[flyingpalm]

great shot, flip