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[nostalghia]

peter -
i just wanted to thank you for making available your historical camera pulications online. i am really enjoying your monograph on the olympus pen series, and i need to re-read it soon, having just acquired one (FT) at a camera show.

you mention, in the lenses section, that you find the 40/1.4 particularly useful personally, or something to that effect (please forgive my misquoting you). yet i haven't found much more mention of this in the way of explanation in this publication. wondering why you like this lens, particularly above the the 38/1.8 (which from my very brief research, has continually been refered to as superior to the 40/1.4)?

you probably follow this up later in the book, and i need to recheck. . .

BTW, at this same show, i did find a second printing hardback of your CANON RF book but the seller was asking over $50, a bit too high in the tooth for me, unfortunately :{

anyhow, the pen f series seems to e very special and quite open to modifications and i hope to explore this in the near future, using this work as a strong guidepost.

again, thank you sir for your work!

roger

 

[pdek]

Pen F - F/1.4 lens

Pen F - F/1.4 lens

peter -
you mention, in the lenses section, that you find the 40/1.4 particularly useful personally, or something to that effect (please forgive my misquoting you). yet i haven't found much more mention of this in the way of explanation in this publication. wondering why you like this lens, particularly above the the 38/1.8 (which from my very brief research, has continually been refered to as superior to the 40/1.4)?
roger

Thanks, Roger: I liked the f/1.4 because I often used my Pen Fs as available light cameras, and the extra bit of speed was useful. But after finding a way to adapt Contax RTS lenses to the Pen F, I often used lenses from that system; earlier I often used lenses from the Nikon system.
By the way:
Hove remaindered the unsold "third printing" copies of my Canon RF book to British sellers when Hove went bankrupt. It shouldn't cost $50 yet unless all the remaindered copies have already been sold.
Peter