Oly 1.8/75, WOW

Cagey75 wrote:

I really don't get Olympus's approach to selling the hoods separately, it's very strange. They must sell enough to justify it though, or they are losing money on them. This lens is on my want list for sure. I have a 25, want a 45, then the 75. Perfect m43 set up for portrait shoots.

65mm is what I'd like
"135mm" vsion

juncction wrote:

CrisPhoto wrote:

Good news, buy the JJC hood. I have compared it to the "original" one and there seems to be zero (aka "no") difference (besides the price tag). I guess it's from the same factory ...

Not quite true if you're talking about the black one. The JJC version of the black one is matte and the Olympus one is semi-gloss, which matches the lens paint – if looks are important to you I mean.

OK, this might be a difference.

In fact, I was comparing my silver JJC hood with a friend's black Olympus hood. Mechanics seemed very very identical, but the paint/finish may be different.

What a dreadful day. Only managed to grab a few lousy snaps. It seems there is some colour fringing in OOF areas. Green behind the focus plane, blue/purple in front. I guess this might be a bit of a pain on slightly miss-focused shots.

Everything converted with Darktable with very minimal sharpening and no lens corrections of any kind.

Obligatory wall shot. Not particularly good, as it was not shot perfectly perpendicular to the wall. But the sign is lighted up, so I was wondering if any purple fringing would show up. But I guess that's hardly enough light to provoke that.

Nice and sharp.

An example of a typical purple flare that's very common on MFT. But frankly, in a situation like this, I was expecting much worse.

The flares from before are no more, as the headlights change position relative to the camera.

Stopped down the headlights loose the blueish glow, but small green flares appear. Still, not bad.

I guess realistically Sunday is my best bet to get some actual shooting done with it.

Jonas Palm wrote:

I’m looking to buy the GM5 as a backup body to supplement my gargantuan E-M1.

Sounds great that you think it works nicely with the 75mm, I had intended to couple it primarily with my PL 25mm f1.4 and lovely little Oly 45mm. Thanks for the Matis tip, I’ll check it out

(You think the 12-32mm zoom is worthwhile? The body lacks IBIS, and it’s really tiny, but...)

In good light, the 12-32 is a worthy addition to the GMs. In low light the PL and Oly primes will work beautifully with it.

Would also suggest the tiny 35-100 as well. Very handy tele zoom when the light is OK and sharp too.

Of course, both of these lenses give stabilisation. I have used the 75 on the GM1. Just don't try to push the envelope too much as far as shutter speed goes and you will love it.

Astrotripper wrote:

Too bad such a gorgeous lens does not come with a hood in the box. And 75 EUR for a lens hood is absurd.

Hopefully I'll have some photos to show tomorrow.

Trick is to buy this lens in the Oly Portrait kit, during holiday pricing.

Basically you'll get the 45mm + 75mm + cases for both + hoods for both, all for the same price as MSRP on the 75m alone.

Bought my kit last November. Looks like its back on special again this year for the same price.

Not sure if the same special extends round the globe but for others watching...

RobbieBear wrote:

Jonas Palm wrote:

I’m looking to buy the GM5 as a backup body to supplement my gargantuan E-M1.

Sounds great that you think it works nicely with the 75mm, I had intended to couple it primarily with my PL 25mm f1.4 and lovely little Oly 45mm. Thanks for the Matis tip, I’ll check it out

(You think the 12-32mm zoom is worthwhile? The body lacks IBIS, and it’s really tiny, but...)

In good light, the 12-32 is a worthy addition to the GMs. In low light the PL and Oly primes will work beautifully with it.

Would also suggest the tiny 35-100 as well. Very handy tele zoom when the light is OK and sharp too.

Of course, both of these lenses give stabilisation. I have used the 75 on the GM1. Just don't try to push the envelope too much as far as shutter speed goes and you will love it.

+1

12-32 + 35-100 (tiny version) + GM5 = best IQ and versatility under 1lb of any camera "setup" I know of.

Finally got to take some proper if a bit hasty shots yesterday and processed a few today.

I am still very much impressed by the performance.

All photos processed in Darktable with very minimal adjustments. And I really do mean minimal:

• no cropping or straightening
• no lens corrections of any kind (dostortion, CA, vignetting)
• no defringing
• no noise reduction unless stated
• minimal (less than the defaults) sharpening unless stated otherwise

A bit of chroma NR and mild sharpening with parameters chosen as to not affect the noise.

That was a good candidate to be shot wide open, but unfortunately I have only this

Bokeh balls are nice and round, but you can see greenish fringes around them. So far, this seems to be the only real flaw of this lens.

This one was underexposed so I raised the exposure by 1 stop in post and also applied some conservative amounts of noise reduction.

Had to raise exposure by half a stop. No sharpening at all, same conservative noise reduction as with the one above. I was really happy to have IBIS here. I did lean onto a pole to stabilise myself, but still...

Ugly concrete blocks brought to you by Allah*

To sum it up, I'm really happy with those shots. I was kinda expecting issues with artificial lighting at night, but there's not much to complain there. There is a lot of blue fringing in the last one, around that strong blue lamp, but that's not surprising at all. Also, Darktable actually doesn't deal too well with blue fringing like that.

A have some more "testing" kind of shots that I will probably post later. In general there is a noticeable (as in, you can notice it) difference in sharpness between wide open and f/2.5 or so. So basically what already turned up on my test chart shots, so no surprises there. Only in real world DoF often makes this a bit harder to actually spot.

*as in, there were none of those around Christmas markets until someone decided to murder a lot of people in Allah's name. Actually, I wonder if those blocks would even be effective in stopping a speeding 15 ton truck.

Ulric wrote:

Clearly one of the best lenses in the system, and IMHO *the* best for portraits.

Yes, for portraits mine never fails to WOW me.

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