Check out the E-P1 with cosina/voigtlander and OM lenses!

[Trius]

you don't have to worry about the lens blocking part of the viewfinder 🙂

ROTFLMAO!!!

 

[Rurouni]

How are your finding the Canon 0.95 on the EP-1? Easy to focus? 🙂

 

[AJShepherd]

Yes, here is the camera mounted onto the lens. 🙂

Sweet! Hope you'll post something taken using that combination.

 

[Mattikk]

 

[wallace]

will there be an adaptor for 39mm screw mount?

wallace

 

[johannielscom]

I won't buy the E-P1, I would have trouble finding the right end of the lens when going out shooting😛

 

[AJShepherd]

Mattikk just found the most ludicrous combination on that site.
A case of "Dude, where's my camera?"

Wallace: I would expect that the L39 adaptor to fit them to M mount bodies will work with M mount adaptors to MFT. As I already have the L39 adaptor to use some screw thread lenses with my Voigtlander R3A, I'm planning on using it, and those lenses (the 75mm color Heliar would make a very compact 150mm(eq) prime telephoto) when I get my M mount adaptor for my E-P1.

 

[gdi]

Yes, here is the camera mounted onto the lens. 🙂

Robert, could you post a shot of the G1 on the 0.95 for comparison?

 

[splitimageview]

Yes, just hold the focus ring on the lens, and rotate the camera. 🙂

Actually yes, the manual focus works very well, although it's easier on the G1 due to the viewfinder.

How are your finding the Canon 0.95 on the EP-1? Easy to focus? 🙂

 

[splitimageview]

Here is a quickee iPhone shot.

Robert, could you post a shot of the G1 on the 0.95 for comparison?

 

[gdi]

Here is a quickee iPhone shot.

Thanks - the G1 doesn't seem quite so over burdened as the Oly!

 

[Tom Diaz]

That is the same process as on the Panny G1 I believe. There is an auto magnification function, but it only works when you are manually focusing the AF lenses.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

You're right about the Panasonic, and the auto-magnification works with some (not all) autofocusing 4/3 lenses. (There's a compatibility chart on the Panasonic support web site that gives you the gory details.)

One lens that this feature does work with is the excellent Panasonic/Leica 25mm f/1.4 Summilux. I hope to be doing a lot of shooting with it this weekend, actually. It's a big lens on the G1, but still, the combination is very nice to use.

With other 4/3 lenses, and all manual focus lenses (such as Leica M lenses), you push a button (left arrow) on the camera that brings up a target frame, and then another button (OK) to magnify it. On the G1, pushing the shutter button returns the viewfinder to normal magnification, a nice & perhaps necessary feature. I hope the E-P1 feature is at least as easy to use. THe G1 is OK except that the buttons are a little close to your face when you have the camera at eye level.


Tom

 

[hkrz]

I'm not an expert, but from what I've read on 4/3 sites is that. Panasonic adapter will allow for automatic detection of manual focus on m lenses.

I just had a look at my Nokton Classic and an idea came to me that, you just need a sensor that detects a rangefinder coupling movement. It doesn't seem impossible to implement for rangefinder coupled lenses as no electronic communication is required. What do you think?

 

[Pickett Wilson]

I think I read that the E-P1 doesn't return to normal when you push the shutter button.

As for an adapter automatically triggering magnification, I can't quite figure how that would work.

 

[rover]

I don't think the Panny adaptor allows for auto mag with MF lenses. Bummer
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0905/09052101panasonicadaptors.asp#press

 

[zeroeseight]

Came across the below, where can see nokton 1.1 and some other lens mounted
http://www.flickr.com/photos/minami/

 

[nemjo]

why not pen lenses...

why not pen lenses...

I wonder why everybody plan/use VC and/or OM lenses, when there are the Pen lenses...
I don't have nor plan to buy an E-P1 but find to use Pen lenses on the G1 quite funny...

The cats were captured with the G1 and the Pen 100/3.5 on it.


nemjo



hey, it's not a Panny, rather Penny...

 

[DRabbit]

http://www.four-thirds.org/en/products/matching/index.html

Check it out with the new CV heliar 15mm and the 35mm 1.2 nokton/50mm f1.1 nokton. So sexy. I'll be seriously considering that 15mm heliar as a little lightweight high quality package. and the 35mm nokton as the portrait prime.

Manual focus is supposed to be very easy with the auto magnified view on the E-p1 screen - should be good.

That is all.

I have the CV 15mm f/4.5 Heliar and it's a great little lens.
But on the E-P1 (or G1 for that matter) you are not going to get as good edge sharpness/resolution. There's a whole big technical reason for it that someone just explained to me (something about light coming in straight vs. on an angle) and it made sense.

Honestly, I think lenses wider than 30mm (or so) may present some of these problems. There's also no point. The 14-42mm (which would cover the same range at f/4.5) is not a big lens. You really don't gain anything.

Here's a shot I took the the Heliar. If you look at the boat on the right, you can see the bit of weirdness. I did not shoot a lot of shots with the lens, so I wouldn't listen to me as the final judge... but it seems generally accepted that if you're going to use M-glass, stick to the longer ones.

 

[Sam N]

The kit zoom is pretty sharp, so there probably isn't much point in using wide and slow M-mount lenses. The more exciting M lenses (to me) are the fast ones, whatever the focal length may be. The CV 35/1.4 looks pretty nice, though it may feel weird using the focusing tab without holding the camera up to your face.

We really need Panny or Oly to make a 10mm/4 or 9/4 that's no bigger than the kit zoom (and under $500 please). The 7-14 is nice, but expensive and still very large on the E-P1.

 

[DRabbit]

I agree with you Sam... using the CV 15mm Heliar seems pointless... there's really no clear advantage.

However, I've been using my Zeiss 35mm f/2 and love it... and don't find the tab focusing awkward at all (without a VF). I think the CV 35mm or 40mm 1.4 Nokton would be very nice (I'm considering one myself!)