juju1958 wrote:
Bob It looks like a great lens, not only your images but others pics with the lens shows me it would be a great addition to what I have. At the moment I am filling the big gap each side of the 45 f1.8 with adapters for suitably good lenses. I have found the EM-5 so easy to manual focus. I have the F2 button set to magnify which works a treat, so using legacy at the moment is not to hard.
I agree with you on the manual focus. I almost sold my favorite lens on the NEX, the CV35/1.2. However, I decided to adapt it to the OM-D and am not disappointed. I also have a Minolta MC Rokkor 58/1.2 with an EOS mount with adapter to OM-D. That same adapter will let me play with my Zeiss lenses albeit only wide open.
However, with such a quick, accurate autofocus and some good available optics, I find myself mostly using the 25/1.4 and the 45/1.8 (the only two native OM-D lenses I have, currently). I get the 7-14mm this week. Should be interesting. My first OM-D zoom lens.
You are going to love the 7-14. It's prime-lens quality and it reminds me me of the Nikon 14-24. Can't wait to see some of your pictures with this lens.
rji2goleez wrote:
I get the 7-14mm this week. Should be interesting. My first OM-D zoom lens.
Argh. I never thought I would be interested in micro 4/3rds, but this camera has so much going for it.
I handled one in a store and was surprised how well built it feels. The AF is so quick! I appeals more to me than the NEX now. I have a few questions:
Are you guys generally happy with your OM-D?
Is the AF reliable? I don't really care for continuous AF-tracking.
How's the dynamic range?
How do you feel about the panasonic 25/1.4?
Jochenb - I can answer these questions very positively. You see, I was like you thinking I wouldn't be interested in MFT. I had a NEX-7 and a bunch of alt lenses but few native ones. The AF is lightning quick and it's accurate.
I am very happy with this camera and can't put it down. I brought my Canon/Zeiss gear with me this weekend and shot the OM-D 90% of the time! I find the AF very reliable but you can always use both AF with MF assist. Dynamic range is wonderful with the sensor . . . I've been surprised by it. As for the 25/1.4, there's been no need to consider MF, the lens is very sharp and the rendering is quite pleasing to me.
Jochenb I've only had my EM-5 for a couple of weeks, I bought it in a kit with the 12-50mm lens but I've ordered the Pan-Leica 25mm 1.4 and the Olympus 45mm 1.8 (should arrive today or tomorrow).
I actually sold my Nikon 24-70mm F2.8 in order to fund the EM-5, having come to a conclusion that it was too heavy and big for me to lug around at all times (I wanna get into more street shooting). A week after I got the EM-5 I decided to sell my Nikon D700 aswell which says a whole lot about the EM-5 I think. I never thought I'd sell the D700. I'm confident the EM-5 will do everything the D700 did for me just aswell but in a smaller package.
I freelance some, shoot weddings and portraits mostly, I've used the EM-5 on one wedding so far as a secondary body to the D700 (before I sold it) and the pictures I got from it were very nice even though I used a NIkon 50mm 1.4 via adapter and manual focused it.
Dynamic range is good, really good as far as I've seen so far, I guess full frame is better (It should be of course) but the EM-5 is really good. Actually good enough to not really care about it, much like pixel-peeping. If you have to pixel-peep in order to see differences then the differences aren't big enough to care about IMO.
I can't say anything about the Pan-Leica 25mm 1.4 yet but judging from the comments in this thread pretty mcuh everybody loves it. The only negative I've heard about it may be it's a bit too big compared to other M43 lenses but that's the price one has to pay for speed most of the time.
I got to see my brothers Silver EM-5 and the Olympus 45mm 1.8 yesterday and WOW that looked awsome, the 45mm is the smallest lense I've ever seen (I know there are smaller ones but the 45mm almost looks like a toy, 37mm filter thread looks cute in a cool way).
The AF is excellent and very accurate, it's fast as hell. It may take some times getting used to compared to a DSLR (normal focus points are slightly bigger) but the accuracy is actually better. You don't have to care much/any about front or back focusing issues with contrast detect AF.
So far I love the EM-5 and I can't wait to really start using it with good lenses. Coming from the Nikon 24-70, 50 1.4, 180 2.8 I've used to good fast glass and the 12-50 doesn't really cut it. Nothing wrong with the sharpness most of the time but it really suffers from a small aperture IMO.
I'm sure I will Juju, it looks great and if the pictures are as good as they say it will be on the EM-5 a lot!
Jochenb, my pleasure, I'll try to give you and update if I can once I get some fast glass for it and use it more!
Something to think about? Don't think, just do it ;-)
Ps. The 12-50mm kit lense is a really good macro lens even though it's not true macro!
I have lv mode set to 2; and when I 1/2 pres shutter button the IS seems to kick in immediately (very obvious); but after a second or two it seems to disable or becomes less effective making it difficult to complete manual focus.
two questions: 1) What happens when you take the picture (does it re-enable?); is there a method to make it stay on longer during manual focus ?
That's odd. I've never had it it 'disable' during a half press. It stays on for me as long as I hold it down. With longer lenses, it'll try and catch up if I move too much, which might be what you're seeing...
yea; maybe it just isn't as effective as I expected or maybe the initial kick in is so strong it feels like it is less effective afterwards (I was testing with a 135mm lens - i should post a couple of the test shots one of these days).
