On a budget: fast Vintage Wide-Angle lenses for your M43?

Mike Loanzon wrote:

I'm antsy to take photos and I want to try a 24 or 28mm lens to allow me some in-door casual shooting.

I'm currently using an Olympus EP-5. I enjoyed shooting with my pentax 50mm F2 but the view is just too narrow, though the aperture does help a lot. I'm waiting and saving up for the big sales near december to get my hands on a panasonic 25mm but for now I want something I can use that's faster than the kit, but gives good bokeh and colors (yes, i like bokeh but i know that isn't what defines a good photo.)

I live in the Philippines where, sadly, it isn't easy to get my hands on a lot of the rarer/nicer vintage lenses for cheap. so that pentax cctv lens is out of question. I've considered cctv lenses as well, but i don't like that the corners get too soft even when i don't want/need them to. although it will likely be a fallback.

currently i see these options:

vivitar 28mm f 2.8

I have one of these in FD mount, and I have tried it on m4/3.

Its rubbish.

Many of these "wide angle" lenses were acceptable in film days because people were limited in how they viewed the output, and also blown away by the newish wide angle look - so a lot of the cheaper (and hence more common) lenses are not the best on m4/3.

And you'll be paying a lot more for the high quality brand name ones, and still getting something that is better covered by a m4/3 native lens or zoom.

The Pentax 25/1.4 is actually very inexpensive, and gives a pretty decent output. I quite like it.