Pierre-Philippe
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Hello all,
I recently acquired a Panasonic Lumix G9 on Ebay which I find really good and entertaining for both Photography and Video. I upgraded it to the latest firmware (2.5)
I am going to use it mainly with the Panasonic 14mm F2.5 and the Olympus 12-40 F2.8 pro I also got on Ebay. Results are very promising.
But I also have various Canon EF lenses, because I am originally a Canon EF shooter and still have my old 6D with a few Canon EF lenses.
On top of that, and that's the topic, I also have a couple of old M42 lenses, i.e. an Helios 44M 58mm F2 and a Jupiter 85mm F2 . Both lenses are vintage manual lenses which I used on the Canon with a small M42-EF adapter.
I also used them a bit with another MFT camera I got a couple of years ago, an Olympus E-PL8 which I still like as a "shirt-pocket" camera. Adapting the lens to the Oly by combining a Viltrox EF-M1 adapter to mount the Helios lens (itself being fitted with the M42-EF slim adapter) I have been able to take pictures with the stabiliser of the Oly camera active. Its menu system allowed me to manually input the focal length for proper stabilisation.
I was hoping to do the same with the Panasonic Lumix G9... unfortunately the IBIS goes bonker with this combination. The camera believes that the focal lens is 2115 mm (two thousand one hundred and 15 millimeters) long !
When I go to the Stabilisation menu, the item to choose the focal length is greyed out.
Because of this, as soon as I start pressing the shutter the viewfinder shows me a very jerky view. The pictures show motion blur unless I use a high shutter speed. Clearly the IBIS goes bonker.
My theory is that the Viltrox adapter reports some random value for the focal length to the camera. The camera, having received this value, does not let me override it (the Olympus camera on the other hand lets me do so).
The EXIF data of the photo shows the lens as "EF1-5535mm F1.4". This is similar actually when I use the lens on my Canon and looks at the data in LR, the lens comes up as "EF-1-65535mm" there.
Do you think there is a way to make the Lumix G9 understands that this is a 58mm lens ?
I recently acquired a Panasonic Lumix G9 on Ebay which I find really good and entertaining for both Photography and Video. I upgraded it to the latest firmware (2.5)
I am going to use it mainly with the Panasonic 14mm F2.5 and the Olympus 12-40 F2.8 pro I also got on Ebay. Results are very promising.
But I also have various Canon EF lenses, because I am originally a Canon EF shooter and still have my old 6D with a few Canon EF lenses.
On top of that, and that's the topic, I also have a couple of old M42 lenses, i.e. an Helios 44M 58mm F2 and a Jupiter 85mm F2 . Both lenses are vintage manual lenses which I used on the Canon with a small M42-EF adapter.
I also used them a bit with another MFT camera I got a couple of years ago, an Olympus E-PL8 which I still like as a "shirt-pocket" camera. Adapting the lens to the Oly by combining a Viltrox EF-M1 adapter to mount the Helios lens (itself being fitted with the M42-EF slim adapter) I have been able to take pictures with the stabiliser of the Oly camera active. Its menu system allowed me to manually input the focal length for proper stabilisation.
I was hoping to do the same with the Panasonic Lumix G9... unfortunately the IBIS goes bonker with this combination. The camera believes that the focal lens is 2115 mm (two thousand one hundred and 15 millimeters) long !
When I go to the Stabilisation menu, the item to choose the focal length is greyed out.
Because of this, as soon as I start pressing the shutter the viewfinder shows me a very jerky view. The pictures show motion blur unless I use a high shutter speed. Clearly the IBIS goes bonker.
My theory is that the Viltrox adapter reports some random value for the focal length to the camera. The camera, having received this value, does not let me override it (the Olympus camera on the other hand lets me do so).
The EXIF data of the photo shows the lens as "EF1-5535mm F1.4". This is similar actually when I use the lens on my Canon and looks at the data in LR, the lens comes up as "EF-1-65535mm" there.
Do you think there is a way to make the Lumix G9 understands that this is a 58mm lens ?
