On 18 Jun 2009, at 14:02, Dawid Loubser wrote:
> With a lens legacy like the OM series', where they managed to create a
> super-high-quality
> 50mm f/1.2
Nice to see this written. I rarely find the quality of this lens
mentioned and often wonder whether it's because there are few out
there or just that mine's special. I have found it at least equal to
all the other 50s I've tried at all apertures.
And I've tried all the OM ones except the f2, Summicrons, Planars, CV
Heliars, Skopars... The ltm Nikkor 50/1.4 was pretty special,
actually, but the 50/1.2 OM and the Planar are the only ones I still
have.
Thanks, Bill!
Makes me want to try the 50/1.2 L just to see if it could be any
better...
Tom
> at is tiny (49mm filter), nothing should stop them from
> at the very least
> also creating a 25mm f/1.2 (or preferably something exotic like a 25mm
> f/1.0) which is small,
> and of high quality. Nobody said it has to be cheap, but if it costs
> even half of what
> a Leica M 50mm f/1.4 costs, they will have a market I think. And they
> need an image
> builder. The E-P1 / 17mm sample I linked to earlier was everything but
> - more of an
> image shredder, if you ask me.
>
> Perhaps it is indeed time for optical viewfinders to die (with the
> currently available
> technology) so I see no problem in a m4/3 body being the top olympus
> camera.
>
> And yes, you are right, this is what Olympus can use to lure us OM
> shooters to Olympus
> digital.
>
> On 18 Jun 2009, at 2:15 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Joel Wilcox<jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I agree. However, people the world over have been begging for
>>>> primes
>>>> from Olympus on all imaginable forums, surely they must know.
>>>>
>>>> If they are serious, they need to put together a set of small but
>>>> serious fast
>>>> primes to take on the Leica M market. Imagine how ridiculous the
>>>> HUGE
>>>> FourThirds
>>>> Panasonic/Leica 25mm f/1.4 + adaptor will look on an E-P1. They
>>>> need
>>>> to make a
>>>> set of small, super-quality fast primes to differentiate themselves
>>>> from the
>>>> corrected-in-software poor slow zooms on offer from the
>>>> competition.
>>>
>>> This is always such an interesting phase, as people evaluate the
>>> business
>>> model coming into some kind of view. The kind of lenses you
>>> describe will
>>> be expensive. Assuming the m4/3 bodies get some traction, it
>>> becomes
>>> feasible perhaps to attempt to best the other two 4/3 brothers.
>>
>> Need to complete my thought -- email took off on its own
>> apparently...
>>
>> For Olympus branded m4/3 to take off in a way that I would like, it
>> really needs to get traction with a lot of people who walked away
>> from
>> Olympus in the digital era. But when people have asked for smaller
>> lenses and especially primes, it was with the E system in mind.
>> Being
>> relatively satisfied with the DZ zooms I have other than their
>> size, I
>> don't see this current m4/3 supporting my system other than in
>> bringing more wealth to Olympus. Maybe that gets us the occasional
>> bone.
>>
>> Then again maybe it brings people with spec-itis and ISO/noise
>> avoidance issues to Olympus and they decide actually 4/3 is OK for
>> most things and then they decide they might like a camera with an
>> actual SLR viewfinder, that begins to help the e-system, maybe.
>>
>> But I am rather cynical about all this as I don't think any of the
>> aforementioned folks amount to much market share. We know that we
>> duffer OM guys amount to peanuts. And personally I'm about as much
>> interested as if Olympus brought out another Camedia. I guess I hope
>> it helps the marque and pays ultimately for something interesting for
>> the e-system.
>>
>> Joel W.
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