Got this and a handful of mzuiko lenses passed down from grandad to dad to me. Quality images from all of them! Got an om1 and 2 with them too 😊 Cracking watch as always, lovely shots! Cheers

@FilmPhotography

9 ай бұрын

HI Chris Thanks for your comment. lenses and OM1 and 2 thats great too. Glad you like the videos.

In the last week or so I have shot my OM10 with this lens on and also the Minolta XG-M with the MD 50/1.7. It is hard to find fault with main brand 50s. I love them. Good shooting.

@FilmPhotography

9 ай бұрын

You are 100% correct and I Lobe my MD 50/1.7 as well. I have a few prime classic lenses but not the right adapters for them I want to get on for my Canon FD 50 and my Pentax 50 1.7 as well. Thanks for your comment.

I did some semi informal testing of several different 50’s from Olympus, Minolta and Nikon. 2 lenses were 1.4 versions, one was a 1.8 and the last an F2. None of them were great wide open but all were equally fabulous by 2.8. It was hard to tell them apart.

@FilmPhotography

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. And yes you are right I think in time as I test mine I think I will find the same.

I have a few Nikon AIS F1.8, F1.4 and a couple of Canon F1.4 FD lenses ( the later SSC and MC ones ). They are all sharp at f2.8 and smaller. I don't have an Olympus simply because I never had an Olympus film camera, although I do have a couple of their 40 series fixed lens range finders. I can't imagine Olumpus being any less sharp or otherwise to Nikon and Canon. I do however, have a 45mm Contx-G Planar F2 for my G2 camera and a Zeiss Planar 50mm F2 ZM ( this lens is actually not a 50mm but close to 44 mm, even though Zeiss claims it is a 50mm ), and both the Contax G2 Planar and the 50mm Zeiss Planar are in a different league to the others. They are razor sharp even wide open @ F2, and by f2.8 the corners are almost as sharp as the center. The latest £5000.00+ Leica 50mm Apo-Summicron is again sharper than any lens that I have including my Summicron F2, but at that price I would expect it too. The fact is that I don't actually rate sharpness very high on my list of priorities, as most photographers seem to do so these days. There is more to a lens performance and rendering than just sharpness. I actually love the classic rendering of my 50mm Summicron DR. The older classic Leica lenses score very high when it comes to the quality of rendering.

@FilmPhotography

9 ай бұрын

What a fantastic comment thank you. You are correct in saying its not about sharpness because there are so many different dynamics in a lens like colour rendition.