If I ever go back to Canon, this is the setup I’d run with.
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- Thread starter Amin
- Start date
- Location
- Minnesota
- Name
- Chris
- Location
- Switzerland
- Name
- Matt
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Just for the heck of it: a bunch of small lenses for Leica systems, M mount in the back, LTM in the front.
Back row from the left:
Zeiss C Biogon 35mm f/2.8, 7Artisans 35mm f/2 (I), Voigtländer Ultron 35mm f/2 II, Voigtländer Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 II, Voigtländer Nokton 35mm f/1.5 Asperical.
Front row from the left:
Canon 35mm f/2.8 LTM (I); Leitz (Leica) Summaron 3,5cm f/3.5 (I); TTArtisan 28mm f/5.6, Voigtländer Heliar 40mm f/2.8 LTM.
I could go on for hours about these lenses, but here, one line each will have to suffice:
- The Zeiss C Biogon is still one of the best 35mm lenses availble for M mount: sharp, contrasty, punchy - fantastic for documentary, a tad heavy-handed for people.
- The 7Artisans was first ridiculed as, later more respectfully called "the China-Cron". It's not - it's a Sonnar-type lens that has its own unique warmth and appeal.
- The Voigtländer Ultron is one of the smallest lenses of its type on the market and punches way above its size, weight and price; bokeh's structured, sharpness exemplary.
- The Voigtländer Nokton Classic has always been a lens to straddle the "modern" and "vintage" divide; the second version leans to the modern side - still quirky, but nice.
- The Voigtländer Nokton Aspherical is perhaps the most universal lens of its type on the market: small, fast, sharp (though not bitingly so wide open), nice bokeh - great!
- The Canon lens has turned out to be a real surprise; at first glance clearly modeled after the Summaron (second version), it's a very solid performer, almost modern.
- The Summaron (first LTM version) is truely iconic - one of the smallest of its kind to this day; truely vintage in character (uncoated!), but no mean performer.
- The TTArtisan is modeled after Leica's Summaron 28mm f/5.6, but optically a completely different design; for what it is, it's a really enjoyable lens to use - with fine results.
- The Voigtländer Heliar is the tiniest high-performance modern lens for the M mount I'm aware of; if it was a 35mm lens, it'd probably be my favourite lens of them all.
M.
- Location
- Seattle
- Name
- Andrew
- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Such a beautifully designed camera.
- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
There's a Rollei Sonnar 40mm that can be had for a rangefinder in LTM mount. I don't need it per se, but beleive me it would be really nice to have. I'm quite good at putting these GAS thoughts to the back of my mind, but seeing that doesn't exactly help!
- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
I managed to hold off on the Olympus 8-25 Pro for about 6-9 months ...
I suppose that I wanted to see if:
1) it was sharp, corner to corner;
2) it had the lovely focus transitions that the 12-100 has;
3) it was really sharp at all FLs and apertures down to about f/11.
Answer was that it satisfied all my requirements well enough that I used it for all the photos taken at the Beaumaris Concourse Car Show this year, here:
- Location
- Vancouver BC
- Name
- Graham
I'm wondering if I should sell off my Oly 7-14mm f2.8 and get this lens. The 7-14 is sharp but heavy.
- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
So is my FTs 7-14, Graham.
However, the 8-25 Pro is sharper, with less geometric distortion. Love it for car photography, but also e.g.
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It has very similar focus transitions to the 12-100, i.e. smooth and excellent.
All photos here taken with it:
- Location
- FT Worth, TX
I sold my 7-14 after getting the 8-25, no regrets. I never really used 2.8 for the 7-14 and f4 is plenty, particularly with IBIS.
- Location
- Switzerland
- Name
- Matt
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Here's something, well, special: Yesterday, my mother gave my late father's last camera to me - it's a tiny Canon IXUS 220 HS from 2011; amazingly, it's even smaller than the later (and even less ambitious) IXUS 132 I bought for a "cheap camera challenge" a while ago. It also manages to be even slicker with its black exterior, and I actually prefer its 24-120mm-e range over the 28-200mm-e of the 132.
I'll shoot that camera today. For someone like me, it's the better kind of souvenir (which literally translates to "memory") than most ...
M.
- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
What a great present to receive, Matt.
And what a cool looking camera, as well.
My sincere congratulations. (And, yes, I'm looking forwards to seeing at least one or two photos you take with it.)
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A little brace of M43 goodness and one that is not so good. Dont like the E-PL8, its silver, heavy and hefty for what it is, so it is bound for the classifieds along with a silver 14-42 MkII.
Inbound is a E-PL7 in glorious full black with a yet another 14-42EZ, it is a tad smaller and a smudge lighter but I will keep regressing if I feel that is to big as well. I like the size of the E-PL3, it is sized like the E-PM1s fat cousin and have a tilting screen, iow "perfect" size, but with the 12 mp sensor, which cant be faulted per se, but I prefer the 16 as it gives a bit more leeway.
This leaves me with the possibility of the E-PL6 and 5, if I find the 7 to be to big as well.
- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
I`ll eat the weight penalty for the flippy screen within reason, but the E-PL8 is rather ridiculously big.
The EM-10MkII is a bit lighter and a tad slimmer but higher due to the "mirror" hump and I think it is a superior camera. On the other hand, I got the E-PL8 mostly for the accompanying EZ lens, and paid somewhat the going rate for the lens and got the camera as a bonus. Which is the story of how I have acquired the four Pens I have, sans the black E-PM. The inbound 7 also has a EZ up the spout, and came with the price tag of the lens.
- Name
- Miguel Tejada-Flores
