Nice shots. I like the look of that Nikkor 35, but the Leica 25 is pretty darn nice too.
I guess micro 4/3rds is an excellent format for adapting lenses...hadn't thought about that before. Can you fit any M-mount lenses on it? How is focusing?
I have the FD 35 f/2.8 due next week and will add it. Its extremely easy to MF focus with the G1 and alternative lens--and there are a great many adaptors available now. See this link http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dx428wg_10fdvsmtd7
There are two adapters available for the Leica lens. One is the M39 Leica screw mount and the other is the Leica M bayonet mount. I have both on order and they should be arriving in a couple of weeks. I don't have any Leica M lens so I have to find some to collect. I am debating if I should get the M39 screw mount or the bayonet mount. I don't think I will collect the real expensive Leica legacy lens but a few Voiglander will be nice.
I had a copy of the Leica 25 mm for my Olympus e420 but sold the lens when I gave my e420 to my daughter. This Leica 25 I am using is a new lens I just received today. The image quality at wide open is better than I remember from the e420.
Manual focus with the G1 is pretty easy. You can magnify the view finder to manual focus and the viewfinder will automatically zoom back out as soon as you push the shutter.
The lens is a toy of course, inspired by experiments shown at another forum I bought the Pentax CCTV 1" lens to see what it can do. A bit soft wide open along with a lot of other shortcomings... but what can one expect from a lens the same size as a film roll canister?
HansenTang; watch out before shelling out too much money on M- and LTM-mount wide angle lenses; there is a certain risk of smeared borders and corners. From typically 50mm and up they seem to work just fine. Good stuff, among many other great lenses, are for example the CV50/1.5 and the CV75/2.5. Small, good build, high IQ.
HansenTsang wrote:
There are two adapters available for the Leica lens. One is the M39 Leica screw mount and the other is the Leica M bayonet mount. I have both on order and they should be arriving in a couple of weeks. I don't have any Leica M lens so I have to find some to collect. I am debating if I should get the M39 screw mount or the bayonet mount. I don't think I will collect the real expensive Leica legacy lens but a few Voiglander will be nice.
I had a copy of the Leica 25 mm for my Olympus e420 but sold the lens when I gave my e420 to my daughter. This Leica 25 I am using is a new lens I just received today. The image quality at wide open is better than I remember from the e420.
Manual focus with the G1 is pretty easy. You can magnify the view finder to manual focus and the viewfinder will automatically zoom back out as soon as you push the shutter....Show more →
Get the M adaptor and an LTM-M adaptor. It will give you more flexibility at lower cost.
mawz wrote:
Get the M adaptor and an LTM-M adaptor. It will give you more flexibility at lower cost.
Or it will give you less flexibility depending on what lenses you buy. If you, for example, have one M-mount and one LTM-mount lens I would very much prefer to have the correct adapters making lens shifting a trivial operation compared to having to fiddle with that LTM to M-mount adapter and the M-->G1 adapter. The price difference doesn't has to be that big.
Jonas B wrote:
Or it will give you less flexibility depending on what lenses you buy. If you, for example, have one M-mount and one LTM-mount lens I would very much prefer to have the correct adapters making lens shifting a trivial operation compared to having to fiddle with that LTM to M-mount adapter and the M-->G1 adapter. The price difference doesn't has to be that big.
In that case you just leave the LTM-M adaptor attached to the LTM lens, turning it into an M lens (which is how the LTM-M adaptors are intended to work). It doesn't become fiddly until you have more LTM lenses than LTM adaptors.
Note that good LTM-M adaptors are $55USD, while the only problem-free M-G1 or LTM-G1 adaptor is the Rayqual/CQ adaptor at $175USD
mawz wrote:
In that case you just leave the LTM-M adaptor attached to the LTM lens, turning it into an M lens (which is how the LTM-M adaptors are intended to work). It doesn't become fiddly until you have more LTM lenses than LTM adaptors.
Note that good LTM-M adaptors are $55USD, while the only problem-free M-G1 or LTM-G1 adaptor is the Rayqual/CQ adaptor at $175USD
I have no wish to take this into an eternal discussion but I have to say I don't agree.
Reports this far tell us about the LTM->M adapter getting stuck in the M->G1 adapter being hard to remove with the fingers only. If you then want to switch from a LTN to M -mount lens it gets awkward.
I think it is about time to check with eBay seller jinfinance; his second version of the M->G1 adapter is probably ready for shipping. The first version was a tad too thick but there was no other problem with it (I know of). USD 86.
All I have said here does of course reflect my habits only: I like to have one adapter mounted and ready to go for every lens I use. Then I can switch lens very quickly and I need one sort of rear lens cap only in the bag.
In the end I guess HansenTang can figure out what option suits him best. He got some clues by now, hasn't he?
Jonas B wrote:
I have no wish to take this into an eternal discussion but I have to say I don't agree.
Reports this far tell us about the LTM->M adapter getting stuck in the M->G1 adapter being hard to remove with the fingers only. If you then want to switch from a LTN to M -mount lens it gets awkward.
I think it is about time to check with eBay seller jinfinance; his second version of the M->G1 adapter is probably ready for shipping. The first version was a tad too thick but there was no other problem with it (I know of). USD 86.
All I have said here does of course reflect my habits only: I like to have one adapter mounted and ready to go for every lens I use. Then I can switch lens very quickly and I need one sort of rear lens cap only in the bag.
In the end I guess HansenTang can figure out what option suits him best. He got some clues by now, hasn't he?
mawz wrote:
I'm a multi-mount shooter (Adaptall-2, Contax, Nikon and m43) so swapping mount adaptors is pretty much par for the course as I switch between bodies.
I also switch between bodies, but not when I am out shooting - then I have one body in the bag only. That's an easier situation; one body and then each lens (max 3) has an adapter and they are all ready to be mounted to the camera. So, not really comparable situations then.
Don't know if anyone's noticed, but there's been a massive spike in Pen F prices. I expect due to the micro 4/3 development. The cameraquest site claims that Pen F and Hexanon adapters are in the works, but there's no date.
I just bought a Pen 40 1.4 so once the adapters become available I'll look at the G1 or the Olympus equivalent. Looking forward to what olympus has to offer.
Sure but ergonomically it will get a bit too small for some one with big hands. I would love a camera like that but even the LX3 is a bit small. There will be a lot of engineering hurdles. A little slippery bar of soap with a nice expensive lens in front is not going to be very comfortable. I would actually like to see a camera not much smaller than the G1 but with a larger sensor and better high ISO performance.
