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Started Aug 25, 2014 | User reviews thread
havanna60 Senior Member • Posts: 1,640
Experimenting with manual focusing legacy lenses with E-P5
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dlhickson wrote:

I have 2 Pen FT's upstairs, and assorted lenses, acquired in the 60's. Then bought a Nikon FTn in 1969, and all Nikon since then - numerous bodies, including D700, and many lenses. This all stopped when I discovered the M43 cameras, about a year ago. With the EP-5 - I shoot all the old Pen F lenses, which are great, a couple of Zeiss lenses, and, of course, all of the Nikons, except the latest G lenses. Maybe I'm the only one

Hi DL,

The Olympus distributor here has a campaign that anyone can borrow any Olympus camera for a week to play with. I borrowed one just to find out how does it work with my legacy lenses. I was experimenting with the movie tele-converter function and one of my favorite lens: Olympus PEN F 38mm/f1.8. Here are a couple of photos all taken with the E-P5 and PEN F 38mm

Having fun with colors and background blur.

The minimum distance of the PEN F 38mm is only 0.35m

More roses

Dog eyes

Fruzhina relaxed

I couldn't find out how to enable focus peaking with a legacy (no-electronics lens)

Here is a short experimental video about the terrific movie tele-converter feature: http://youtu.be/BTyFFARBbao

I found IBIS excellent, too; if only focus peaking would be better and without the severe limitations in the E-P5.

Take care and have fun, Miki

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