Share your M4/3 body + Manual lenses's photos here !

[photoart]

taken with Oly EPL1 and Zeiss 135mm f3.5

 

[kuanek]

E-PL1 with Minolta MD 50mm F1.7

 

[KokLeong Yong]

E-PL1 with Minolta MD 50mm F1.7

what is your iso setting for this pic?

 

[pchmj]

what is your iso setting for this pic?

I think it's more of over-sharpening rather than high ISO.

 

[wonglp]

A few personal gems, taken mainly with mix of pens:

Voigtlander 35mm 1.4 bokeh balls


Voigtlander Nokton 35/1.4 MC bokeh balls by wonglpnn, on Flickr

OM 50/1.4


Olympus OM 50/1.4 by wonglpnn, on Flickr

Minolta PG Rokkor 58/1.2


Minolta 58/1.2 by wonglpnn, on Flickr

 

[motionstills]

 

[rramesh]

For those who love their camera more than the art of taking pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89533801@N00/6332680379/

 

[cannedpineapples]

motionstills, nice tubes! What amp/dac is that?

 

[motionstills]

motionstills, nice tubes! What amp/dac is that?

thanks cannedpineapples, it's a DIY pre-amp from parts I got from Martin at Burlington Sq (next to sim lim sq).

 

[cannedpineapples]

Nice! I need to go get some more tubes myself... My 6H30 just blew, heh.

 

[huifang]

Hi, interesting thread here.
My first post on Clubsnap.

Olympus E-P1 with 25mm f1.4 CCTV lens

 

[cichlid]

EPL1 and Minolta 50mm f2 lens (the only MF lens i have)

 

[cichlid]

A few personal gems, taken mainly with mix of pens:

wow, u have the 58mm f1.2 lens, show some bokeh shots leh

 

[rasdeep]

Minolta 50/1.4

 

[wonglp]

A few personal gems, taken mainly with mix of pens:

wow, u have the 58mm f1.2 lens, show some bokeh shots leh

Here's one to show the bokeh of 58/1.2


Minolta MC rokkor 58/1.2 by wonglpnn, on Flickr

And a couple more on this lens on flickr

 

[Oly5050]

Sorry but i thk the 58 1.2 minolta bokeh is not smooth.

 

[wonglp]

Sorry but i thk the 58 1.2 minolta bokeh is not smooth.

No worries, bokeh is subjective. It's smooth for me, and that's good enough.
One that I do like very much though it's with Nex 5N...
Minolta MC rokkor 58/1.2 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

[swhyge]

I am still figuring how ones can find joy in trying to manually focus that small m43 camera - which sometimes thrown out of 'balance' by the manual lens!

 

[wonglp]

I am still figuring how ones can find joy in trying to manually focus that small m43 camera - which sometimes thrown out of 'balance' by the manual lens!

Good point, certainly a good grip and an EVF is a must have for me.

The joy perhaps is not the manually focusing of it but the result of able to nail your subject by your eye instead of camera's intelligence, the joy of finding old fast gems that would cost a bomb by today standards, not to mention made to last, some of which are older than me. Lenses made yesteryears just have different characters - be it coating, the bokeh, the smoothness of manual focusing, some are smooth wide open, some are tact sharp, some are low contrast, some are high contrast. MF actually helps me to think before I shoot, AF spoils me. Some lenses are also not as big as you may think, it fact can be smaller. The c mounts, pen F, pentax auto110, etc are some that are not unbalanced. Those that are unbalanced so far are really the telephoto (>80mm) prime lenses , a good grip will be very essential. The joy for this perhaps is the onlooker's amazement of seeing a huge lens on a small body, I've had a couple 135mm but not really enjoyed it tbh, some friends I know like it very much though.
Though with the introduction of more m43 AF primes (e.g. 25/1.4, 45/1.8), perhaps the ppl who will use MF lenses will reduce. My 2 cts.

 

[huifang]

Olympus E-P1 with Olympus OM Zuiko 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 lens