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Legacy fast prime - or alternative ?

Started Nov 17, 2015 | Discussions thread
Brian Chichester
Brian Chichester Senior Member • Posts: 1,114
Re: Legacy fast prime - or alternative ?

The popularity of legacy fast primes on mirrorless cameras has led to price inflation, so it's difficult to get a good fast prime manual lens for a reasonable price these days.

The Oly 45mm f1.8 is a fairly economical alternative and is also a native M4/3 lens with all its advantages.

My 'legacy fast prime' is a Rokkor 58mm f1.4, and though it's a pretty good lens, it's heavy and doesn't balance well even on my chunky GF1. It was in the cupboard already so I didn't pay out for it, but these are going for £80-120 on eBay these days and basically are not very good value compared to the new Oly 45.

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