New Pen F thoughts

James Pilcher wrote:

BluenoseNS wrote:

Got a new silver Olympus pen F and Panasonic 25mm f1.7

Excellent! Great camera. Not sure why a Lumix lens, but it’s a good combination nonetheless. On the other hand, I suppose I should not press your lens choice.

I use 3 Panasonic lenses on my Pen-F the 25/1.7 is one of them.  If I were to wager a guess, I bet he purchased it because it’s very sharp and cost next to nothing.  It’s not the ideal FL for me for some things, but the lens is sharp corner to corner wide open and $150 or less new sometimes - can’t argue with that.

My first µ4/3 camera was an Oly E-PL5 and I immediately purchased the PanaLeica 25mm f/1.4.

The camera overall is excellent and it will take quite some enjoyment time before I am used to all its functions and capabilities...

... I am surprised at how much I am using the evf—!likely because I hesitant for now with the flippy screen. I think evf’s are an antiquated thing and a good lcd screen is better to use

I’ll go out on a limb here and assume you do not wear glasses, or that you do and you have bi/tri focals. There are a lot us out here with excellent distance vision, but need reading glasses. A rear LCD for all framing is a disaster for us. An EVF (or OVF for that matter) are far more useful for daily shooting for people in our group. I’m just sayin...

I’m nearsighted, the LCD screen is just as nice for me to use.  Generally I prefer tilt screens but about 40% of the time I need the flippy screen... what Inreally want is the X-T3 LCD screen.

Jim Pilcher
Summit County, Colorado, USA
Don't trust anyone under 9100 feet