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My two "lucky pics" of the week...

Congrats to the winners!

And enjoy your prizes...

12 hours ago, philthebook said:

 

... it was taken from my drone

Wow! Cool...

From yesterday...

Welcome Jim!

And feel free to post some pics

We are "hungry" at that, here!

Cheers

On 16/09/2016 at 11:33 PM, tifino said:

I still have my Zuiko lenses - a 24, an 35, a 50, and 75-150mm

 

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I'm resisting the purchase of a full blown digital camera...

Hi tifino,

As FR says above, you may have a try with a second hand MFT body and then have the use of your set with a proper adapter.

As a note, expect about 10000 Bahts (sometime less). Not a hudge investment for a first test...

I did the plunge about 4 months ago and I'm more than happy to be able to use my vintage lenses. Furthermore, I discovered digital photography with dedicated lenses and it's a lot of fun.

If you know film photography you'll be at ease with DP. Just some time to spend at first to adjust oneself to the handling of the so many available features...

For info, have a look here:

And here:

Try it, I think you won't regret it

Cheers

Though there are several options to carry vintage lenses, I think MFT is the cheapest way to play with.

Salut jl!

And welcome to the friendly photo forum.

Many nice people here, as well as great hobbyists.

Waiting to see more pics from you.

Cheers,

Ray

More...

Part 2

Another full real life pic at f/1.8.

Same suburb in front of a bank branch:

No visible vignetting again, and no apparent distortion. Light blue and light gray colours don’t seem to darken in the corners and straight lines close to the edges seem to stay  straight enough. Good and smooth colours rendition as a whole, good colours contrast and nice detailed materials.

Thanks to the contrast and the sharpness, the in-focus dark subject pops out the light coloured background…

I’m impressed with this 45 lens even at f/1.8. I know, I know, I already said it

But from my modest enthousiast hobbyist’s point of view, what we get in « real life » with this Zuiko lens is really outstanding. No worry at all at use. Just shoot and shoot again !

Amazing for a MFT format. I suppose full 30x40 (12 x16) prints from the above pics would come beautifully…

Waiting for night shots, now.

All this IMHO, of course !

Ray

More about the 45 f/1.8 Zuiko lens

Part 1

Yes, a bit more because I'm really blown out!

After some first handlings, I wanted to know what this lens gives on street at f/1.8 in day light where one has to decide quickly. And though f/1.8 is not its best performance area for that, the Zuiko works very good thanks for part to its fast and acurate autofocus when coupled with my EM-5.

Note: following pics came straight out from my Oly EM-5 JPEG engine. No post-editing or added artifice at all.

Full real life pic at f/1.8.

A food seller in a CNX suburb:

As far as I can see, no vignetting in this bright pic. Nice contrast on the subject despite this overlit background. The subject pops out the nicely blurred background, and though the shallow DOF, the focus is fading very smoothly, gently modeling the rear head and hair while putting the face very in front at first eye-catch…

Colours are crisp but not overly saturated and are full of smooth middletones.

100% crop of the same pic in the center at f/1.8:

Sharp enough, isn’t it ? Skin, traits, eyes, tones : everyrthing is really here and nicely rendered. Stopped down by 2 stops, micro-contrast and sharpness increase a bit more as expected…

Another 100% crop on the edge down the same pic :

Good sharpness  here too (not the extreme corners, I admit, but then). Fabric details, colours, shape and material give a realistic feeling touch…

Wow!

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Not so sure...

Thanks for your comments, guys!

Nice you upgraded your gear, FR. Glad for you...

Enjoy!