Olympus E-P1 with vintage lens

[Jackslai]

I am happy have the E-P1 with my vintage lens.

 

[robocam]

I am happy have the E-P1 with my vintage lens.

I like your shots, they are beautiful. I was fortunate to borrow a EP-1 for two weeks and experimented with several lenses. I took the EP-1 and my Nikkor 300mm/f2.8 and Nikkor 200mm/f2.0 to a nearby lake and shot a few shots one afternoon.
One is with the Nikkor 200mm, it was the first shot I took and I forgot to change from the pin-hole art filter I had been using the day before. And it overexposed a bit, but I like this shot.
Another is with the Nikkor 300mm with only a slight crop to get rid of some bright sky at top. The two sailboats passing each other.
The third is a shot of some kids on a board with a paddle. This is about 2/3 of the frame.
The subjects were pretty far away in all the shots and I shot the lenses wide-open, to make focusing easier. I did have to put a cloth over my head and the LCD as it was very bright that day. Just like using a view camera, and yes I had the big lenses on a tripod!

Dale

 

[FrozenInTime]

I am happy have the E-P1 with my vintage lens.

The out of focus highlights really set this one up well - it's great.
Now I bet it was :bang: switching between live-view and full frame while simultaneously trying to optimize composition and focus.

 

[robocam]

In my experience focusing with a fast lens wide open and hand-held worked fine without magnifying the view. It is difficult at best hand-held. But on a tripod it was pretty easy to go back and forth. The sailboats were actually moving in my shots, but I was still able to capture them fine. For macro work as the flowers shown here, it would not be easy to keep the distance the same after using the magnify screen.

 

[Jeff Day]

Really beautiful shots, thanks for sharing them with us.

Best,

Jeff

 

[Jackslai]

Olympus E-P1 + Canon FD 20mm f2.8 SSC

 

[Jackslai]

Olympus E-P1 + Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Tessar 50mm f2.8

 

[Jackslai]

Olympus E-P1 + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f2.8