I just thought I would kick off this sample thread. I just got this and am just playing.

Thanks for photos, Finder.

Due to small size of the photos, I cannot appreciate the clarity at the shadow part of the brick pillars photo as well as the right upper corner of the dog statue one. Is it possible to post larger photos ? Thanks.

BTW, LTM mount or M-mount?

100% not processed. (Although I don't know how one-hundred-percenty these are as the forum seems to resize uploads.)

@ Finder How do you feel about f/5.6? I feel a bit too slow, but the lens itself is so beautiful!


Nice shots

I should show the camera with the lens. The matching finder is a Panasonic Lumix DMW-VF1 for a 4:3 aspect ratio camera. The finder is small. Eye relief is on the short side. It has parallax correction lines for 50cm. Like most viewfinders it shows an approximation of the field of view--it is a little smaller than the actual field of view which is standard practice for viewfinder designs. I have an affinity for rangefinder/viewfinder cameras so it does not both me. SLR folks may be more annoyed with using it. However, I turn my monitor off and simply zone focus--it is a lot of fun.

BTW, you really don't "focus" a 12mm lens. Depth of field is so deep zone focusing is rather easy, even if you are conservative with the depth of field scales on the lens.

P.S. the other lenses are an Olympus 17mm and finder and Minolta 90mm f/4 M-Rokkor.

One more thought--the monitor level can be really handy doing architecture/interiors.

@count_zero
DoF increases as focal lenght decreases.
Take a look at these mages:



See how DOF lines converge towards telephoto end.

Olympus manual mentions that the 2x crop factor applies to both focal length conversion and effective DOF.

The UW-Heliar is thus used as a 24mm (for cropped image) f/11 (for effective DOF)
The hyperfocal distance is 3.5M.

It's a formidable PnS lenses in the street.

Olympus manual mentions that the 2x crop factor applies to both focal length conversion and effective DOF.

The UW-Heliar is thus used as a 24mm (for cropped image) f/11 (for effective DOF)
The hyperfocal distance is 3.5M.

It's a formidable PnS lenses in the street.

Did not get it on the effective DoF, I guess I have to read more.
The hyperfocal distance for wide open tuns out to be 1.71m however,
at least according to http://dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
This means that setting this aperture and setting the lens to focus on the hyperfocal distance,
you will get acceptably sharp images from half that distance to infinity.
@Finder
Putting the lens in question on a bigger sensor camera, or ultimately on a 135 film one will result in less DOF. Smaller sensors give more DOF. P&S cameras give more dof than pen, pen gives more dof than DSLRs, and cellphone cameras give most dof due to their microscopic sensors.

@Finder
Putting the lens in question on a bigger sensor camera, or ultimately on a 135 film one will result in less DOF. Smaller sensors give more DOF. P&S cameras give more dof than pen, pen gives more dof than DSLRs, and cellphone cameras give most dof due to their microscopic sensors.

Only when the field (angle) of view is the same (you will note that focal length on the smaller sensor cameras is also smaller). So a 24mm lens on a 35mm camera has less depth of field than a 12mm lens on a m4/3. While we are talking about the same field of view, we are also talking about two different lenses.

A 12mm lens on a 35mm camera gives a 115 degrees field of view--much more than I get with the E-p1. Since I magnify the 35mm image less to make the same display size, I get more depth of field. However, the 35mm and m4/3 images do not look the same--the 35mm is wider. So when I use the depth of field scales on the lens I tend to be a bit conservative.

Thanks. I am having fun with it.

adash, it is easy to get confused over DoF or rather how it works. Especially at 6 in the morning.

i would love to own that les ive got the 15 and love it but that 12 is beyond awesome 

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