p.22 #1 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
ulrikft wrote:
Anyone know a shoot-off between this, the adaptall 17 and the tokina 17 3.5?
I've been planing one, but I won't test the Tokina, it's garbage from what I saw on the copy I Tested. You should for sure get the Tokina as it is all that will fit on your Nikon.
p.22 #2 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
The original Tamron "adaptall" mounts for Nikon are still cheaply available. The Tokina can be very good (better than the Tamron) depending on the copy.
p.22 #3 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
Hmm... well, the alternatives are nikon 18 3.5, 20 f/4, tamron adaptall 17 3.5 or tokina 17 3.5..... OR fare more expensive, but also a bit better I guess:
p.22 #4 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
The 19/2.8 version 1 which is all that works on the Nikon is not very good. Really the 18/2.8D is the sharpest wide I've ever seen having used the 18/3.5 OM and Nikkor, 17/3.5 Tokina and Tamron, 18/4 Ai, and 20/4 AI. I wouldn't even consider the Leica.
p.22 #5 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
I have lens tests from MP on the Nikon 18/4, OM 18/3.5, Contax zeiss 18/4, Tokina 17/3.5 SL, and Tamron 17/3.5 www.edsawyer.com/lenstests/
The Tokina is a good lens for the $, and really not that bad overall. Tamron may be better, a lot depends on copy variation. OM 18 trumps both IMNSHO. I haven't tried the Contax but it puts up good numbers in tests, though in real life is softer in the corners than the OM, from what I have seen.
p.22 #11 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
Can't let the thread fall too far, here's a shot I took while taking a walk with my son the in the middle of the day the other day. It is the yard of a junk artist, he calls his yard "Junkyart." Not sure about the processing, but it wasn't the best time of day. I just wanted to contribute to this wonderful thread devoted to a wonderful lens.
p.22 #12 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
A couple more of an interesting house in the neighborhood, from my walk, both wide open, I believe. I apologize ahead of time for brightness (or darkness issues). I find that my computer at home has a very powerful backlight, and my pictures all look dark whenever I look at them from work. Sometimes, I blindly compensate by cranking up the brightness without knowing how it will look on other people computers.
p.22 #13 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
Nice strong colours ewadler. I also have the same issue with my monitor - I actually had to re-process 600 wedding images TWICE due to this - and my monitor is profiled daily and all. I ended up having to set the gamma to 2.40 instead of the industry standar 2.20 to get a semi-realistic display of the tones that will end up in prints.
Looks like its time to bite the bullet on a better monitor
p.22 #16 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
ulrikft wrote:
hmm, is that the real amount of vignetting?
Yes on digital, that is what you often see. It depends on the situation though. My copy is up for sale in the B&S because I need to fund my new found RF addiction.
p.22 #17 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
Well, I can't use such gear, as I'm on nikon :P So my only alternatives are my 20 1.8 sigma, a smaller, but not so sharp nikon 20 f/4, a 18 3.5 from nikon or tamron daptall 18 3.5.. something in those lines anyway!
p.22 #18 · The official Olympus Om Zuiko 18/3.5 thread
ulrikft wrote:
Well, I can't use such gear, as I'm on nikon :P So my only alternatives are my 20 1.8 sigma, a smaller, but not so sharp nikon 20 f/4, a 18 3.5 from nikon or tamron daptall 18 3.5.. something in those lines anyway!
Seriously the Nikkor 18/2.8D is amazing.
