Jemez Mountains: E-PM2

Interesting stuff, Klarno, and nice pix.

As for the Oly 14-42 II R, which is what you have, I too found it to be very good indeed. At 14mm, it gave away nothing but an f-stop to the Panny 14mm.

I also tried the WCON-P01 and the MCON-P01 with results which made me happy. The WCON introduces quite a bit of barrel distortion, but it is a regular form so it is easily corrected in PP using Photoline -- if you wish to correct it. Most of the time, the correction was unnecessary and some of the time, the barrel distortion actually added to the pic.

The black rectangle shows the 14mm covered; the full frame is with the WCON fitted. A lot of extra picture for a modest amount of money.

A few examples:

Hmmm -- who was fiddling around with his niew piece of equipment when he should have been cutting the grass? Talk about dead give-away!

A bit of flare around but easily controlled by shading the front element with your hand. In this case, I deliberately set out to see what flare would look like with the sun just out of the frame. I thought this was a pretty good result.

Barrel distortion helps this pic! The fence was leaning just a bit, the distortion made the lean more apparent.

The barrel distortion -- but …

… because it is nice and regular, it is fixed 100% in less than a minute in PP in Photoline. (Note: some of he shelves really did sag a bit.)

I was less happy with the MCON -- it performed well, and had the added advantage of also fitting onto the excellent Oly 40-150, but it is made with very thin plastic. It felt like a toy out of a cornflakes box.

I think this is an MCON shot. A minature sunflower.

A pitu Oly doesn't offer a 2x tele converter for the 14-42 as Panasonic does.

Cheers, geoff