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p.2 #1 · Compact but fast vintage alt glass recommendations? To adapter-mount on mFT

As an m4/3 user, I think that if you are shooting alt, there are better platform out there than m4/3: GXR-M, NEX, to name a few. m4/3 excel in its compact native lens. The crop factor, higher pixel density, lack of focus peaking, etc, work against it.

Jul 31, 2012 at 12:22 AM

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p.2 #2 · Compact but fast vintage alt glass recommendations? To adapter-mount on mFT

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Cool thread! Thanks Lightshow!

Jul 31, 2012 at 12:44 AM

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p.2 #3 · Compact but fast vintage alt glass recommendations? To adapter-mount on mFT

Fast-ish lenses I like under $500

Yashica ML 21mm f/2.8 (Shaaaarp, low distortion!, nice colors, no CA)

Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 AIS (low distortion, very sharp, low CA)
Super Takumar 28mm f/3.5 (very creative, very sharp)

Rokkor 35mm f/2.8 (incredibly sharp, high micro-contrast, great colors, No CA IIRC)

nFD 50/1.4 (sharpest 50mm at exactly f/1.4 on the planet)
Super-Multicoated-Takumar 50/1.4 (creative "painterly" bokeh, and very sharp)
C/Y Zeiss 50/1.7 (creative highly defined "bright" bokeh, sharp)
C/Y Zeiss 50/1.4 (nice 3D-ishness, sharp, low CA)
Minolta AF 50/1.4 (super colorful, very sharp, low CA)
Minolta AF 50/2.8 Macro (Super colorful, very sharp, 1:1 magnification)
Voigtlander Norton 50/1.5 (very sharp!!! compact when mounted [M39], neat shape)

FDn 85/1.2L with internal dirt (super bokeh, very sharp, with internal dirt $500 is possible and it's really easy to disassemble and clean this lens!)
C/Y Zeiss 85/1.4 (Zeissishness!)

Tamron SP AF or MF 90/2.5 (Not the 2.8, very sharp, 1:1 mag, great colors)

Nikkor 105/2.5 (Zeiss-like 3D-ishness, very sharp, good colors)
Nikkor 105/2.8 (1:1 macro, very sharp, good colors, low CA)

Canon FD 135/2.5 (Very unique rendering WO and very sharp)
C/Y Zeiss 135/2.8 (Zeiss 3D-ishness, good colors)
Sears 135/2.8 Macro (Creative SF rendering possible, very sharp, lightweight)

There are many others but they're either not compact-ish, over $500, or I've forgotten them. Hopefully the later is only temporary.

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aleksanderpolo, besides being off topic that doesn't even seem to make sense. What? I'm lost.

Jul 31, 2012 at 02:04 AM

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p.2 #4 · Compact but fast vintage alt glass recommendations? To adapter-mount on mFT

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No, not for the OM-D. ...

Oh, I didn�t saw the mFT in TO post - shame on me!

Jul 31, 2012 at 02:24 AM

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p.2 #5 · Compact but fast vintage alt glass recommendations? To adapter-mount on mFT

Don't the C-mounts work pretty well on M4/3s? I know the ultra-wides vignette pretty heavily, but it seems like the longer lenses worked well. Some of them are fast. cheap, and have loads of character.

Jul 31, 2012 at 01:28 PM

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p.2 #6 · Compact but fast vintage alt glass recommendations? To adapter-mount on mFT

No, they don't. There seems to be a cult following who claim they do. But they're full of shite IMHO! There's only as tiny number of C-mount lenses that will fit down into the throat of the �4/3 mount - as the adapter demands. Of those 30% of them hit the shutter curtain and 85% of them don't cover the sensor.

There's a couple worth modifying or that just work but for the most part we can all safely avoid C-Mount lenses - unless tinkering in your thing. And really, of the ones that are worth it, there are 135 mount lenses to match them for the same or less money.

I guess it would also be worth it if you needed to match footage from your film (movie) camera in a professional arena. This would save one from having to scan in all the footage in order to CG and Comp with.

Jul 31, 2012 at 06:38 PM

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p.2 #7 · Compact but fast vintage alt glass recommendations? To adapter-mount on mFT

Ah, thanks, Bif. I was remembering incorrectly. What about lenses from super 16 cameras? Are they at all useable?

Jul 31, 2012 at 08:59 PM

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p.2 #8 · Compact but fast vintage alt glass recommendations? To adapter-mount on mFT

Well, that's a film format. But if you mean from the PL, Bay, or Arri mount cameras and not the ones that use c-mount again then I think there are adapters to �4/3 but they're expensive. Like around $300. And I dunno everything of course but I've never seen a "compact" lens in Arri or PL. When a regular 16mm camera is converted to Super-16 the image circle needs to be bigger because of course the frame size is wider. So if the lens covers the Super16 frame then it might have a better chance of covering the �4/3 frame. There's still a big difference tho. A Super16 frame is 12.52mm wide and a �4/3 "frame" is 17.3 mm.

And before you ask, Ultra-16 is actually smaller than Super16.

Some B4-mount lenses might have a better chance.

"Remembering" from reading forums, is probably difficult at best cuz there's always someone (even me at one point) talking out their rumps about the wonders of c-mount on �4/3. So it's really easy to think there's a lot of good compatible models out there.

If you're interested in lenses like these, old film mounts and so forth I think http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/forum.php is a pretty good place to start looking. There's guys there who know lots more than me! Just be carful of the rump-talkers.

Jul 31, 2012 at 09:42 PM

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