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Legacy fast prime - or alternative ?

Started Nov 17, 2015 | Discussions thread
Thorfinn
Thorfinn Regular Member • Posts: 158
Re: Legacy fast prime - or alternative ?

Mark Thornton wrote:

I would suggest the Olympus 45 f1.8 or the Panasonic 25 f1.8 depending on your focal length preferences. Compact and reasonably priced.

these are modern lenses and I recommend them too. The Olympus 45 is quite a bargain.

I use both a Zeiss Planar 50 1.7 and my Oly 45 1.8. Both are quite the same focal lenght. The Oly is more compact, colder in colours and has AF. The Zeiss has richer colours, and is born with manual focus (no drive by wire). It is one of my "speacial purpose lens" and with adapter as bulky as the Olympus 75 1.8

The OM 50mm f1.4 is a bit "overtuned", for edge and corner sharpness you have to step down to 1,8 - so if you have to buy on a small budget: get the 1.8 - there are plenty of those kit lenses on the marked. It is difficult to se the difference between the OM 50 1.4 stepped down to 1.8 and the OM 50 1.8 at 1.8.

But start with a cheap m4/3 to OM adapter for the lenses you already own.

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