This evening I borrowed Mitchie’s MMF-2 adapter, because I was contemplating this copy of it, which is only about 1/3rd of the price of that original one.
First I used Mitchie’s ZD 40-150mm lens set to 73mm wide open (f=4.6), and took this hand held with 1/15th of a second (that was +0.3EV):
Then I mounted my OM Zuiko 1:1.8 50mm lens set to f=2.8, and manually focused this during a short walk, using the VF-2 viewfinder and no magnification:
Pretty good results. But do I need such an adapter? Hmmm. I have the 50mm macro lens almost permanently attached to my SLR, and I also have that 40-150mm for it. In fact, as long as I can have Mitchie’s 20mm attached to my Pen, I have something like the perfect two camera kit. And since she has that sweet new 45mm kind of permanently attached (since almost 4 months or so), I’m glad if I can borrow that shorter Panasonic lens from her.
The adapter? Hmmm. Sometimes. Just for a change. But then I can also borrow that from Mitchie I guess…
Thanks for viewing.
Hi Wolfgang,
it’s tempting, I must admit. I even saw an adapter for my Nikon lenses, but I can’t imagine putting the Sigma 70-200 f2.8 on the Pen :0)
I do have the Nikkor 35mm f1.8 though, which is a sweet little lens in itself, now that might be an interesting combination.
Al
Hi Al,
sorry, didn’t see this comment while I was at work. And yes, that 35mm Nikkor would make a nice and short portrait lens maybe – if you can live with manually focusing it. But a cheap adapter together with that lens would be the cheapest way to find out, hm? Later you can still get something like the Samyang 1:1.4 85mm (some 300€ or so, almost Zeiss quality). That should give some creamy bokeh, look at jfinite’s photos in the DPReview Olympus DSLR forum, or at Flickr (he’s mostly using the 50 macro or this Samyang (his is branded as ‘Rokinon’) or even the 150/2).
1/15 s @ something that equals 150 mm Full Frame? Nice sharpness! Wow! And it would make a good stock photo! Something like: “Killing Pollutants in black plastic” or so?
Hehe thanks Thorsten – but I’m not into this for the money. Thought about it, but I was afraid that once I start this, I’d also start seeing things differently, and waiting for that “Ka-ching!” sound when I look at things. So stock photography, for me, is a: “Thanks, but no, thanks!” thing.