I think that is the issue when I decided to go digital. Everyone gets
new lenses. At the time the E-1 was six months away and looking like
vaporware. The ability to use older lenses by Nikon and Canon was the
perfect marketing tool which Olympus ignored for a while. The thing
is that most people want to see one of those new autofocus designed
for digital lenses on their new camera. And within the space of a
couple of years the older lenses are no longer used by most for the
reasons you give. I knew I would never be willing to work fiddling
manually for apertures and I was interested in the speed of
autofocus. So I bit the bullet and went for a camera and system I
liked regardless of my OM lenses. Happy I did it. I don't worry about
using a very expensive. modern capable camera in a manner that is
less capable than a 20 year old OM4 because of working with an old
lens through an adaptor.
Taking the old lenses that you are going to stop using anyway out of
the equation certainly simplifies the decision.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Aug 19, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Moose wrote:
>
> By the time I bought the 5D, I already had a few AF lenses to fit
> it, so
> I've done only a little shooting with OM mount lenses.
> The utility of OM lenses on a 5D depends a lot on what you photograph
> and how you work. It is much more slow and deliberate than with an AF
> lens, which fits some people very well and would probably drive others
> crazy.
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