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Comment on Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75mm f/1.8 lens announced by troll

troll — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:26:23 +0000

What’s the point of this camera/lens? It is dearer than a reflex with APS-C, less capable and not smaller.

Comment on Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75mm f/1.8 lens announced by gfahey

gfahey — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:13:22 +0000

@Grgor I agree with you. I think Oly went for the retro vibe ala the X100 but, in that quest, they showed a remarkable lack of imagination.

That being said, a 150mm equivalent f/1.8 lens is very nice. Olympus has done well with their lenses but, really needs to invoke Steve Jobs’ (first thing that came to mind) idea of design. The bodies don’t match with the lenses at all. Blocky looking and have to be honest here, they look like toy cameras. I’d be inclined to get an Olympus if they came up with something a little better (and stealthier) looking.

Comment on Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75mm f/1.8 lens announced by Ken

Ken — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:11:52 +0000

No black finish option?

Comment on Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75mm f/1.8 lens announced by pavel

pavel — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:35:04 +0000

How is this lens 2x better than for example Nikon 85mm f/1.8G AF-S? Shouldn’t it be even cheaper due to smaller sensor and therefore less glass inside?

Comment on Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75mm f/1.8 lens announced by Grgor Even

Grgor Even — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:23:03 +0000

Nice lens, but looking at OM-D never stops amazing me in negative way. Why on earth that camera design gives implication of prism and optical viewfinder as it lack those. There is suppose to be an electronic viewfinder isn’t it? Olympus should look at new Sony-, Fuji-, and Samsung-cameras. In their mirrorless camera design the viewfinder is placed in upper left-corner, which is the most logical place to put it, not in the middle of camera.

Comment on Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75mm f/1.8 lens announced by Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:55:44 +0000

“A textured metallic outer finish exudes quality and sophistication, while the large 50mm diameter glass front lens conveys a sense of power and performance”

I’m sure there are some people that actually find this lens useful, but it seems to me, that quote up there is the real point. The lens will look great on your camera! The camera will look great with the lens on it! You will look so professional with it!

Nevertheless, nobody’s forced to buy it, and we have one more (probably optically excellent) m43 lens. that’s great.
Now, a 200mm f/4 maybe? long primes are missing in m43 as much as short ones are missing in Nikon DX.

Comment on Pentax K-30 officially announced by Kraken

Kraken — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:32:42 +0000

You invest your time insulting a brand that you consider so insignificant. It is a very good way of investing your time. Intelligent people do it every day.

Comment on Pentax K-30 officially announced by Philippos

Philippos — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:55:47 +0000

I guess going mainstream is your thing then?
Doing just what everybody else is doing and going with the flow…
Just like sheep, or even better just like the Lemming you don’t believe you are.
I guess you also have an iPhone. So you can “be different”, just like everybody else.

Now go play your Mitsubishi camera. It has to be good. It has a 40% marketshare. Just like Nokia did. And RIM. And the Sony Walkman. And Palm. And AOL. And Yahoo. And PanAm. And Agfa. And Polaroid. And Kodak. And TWA. And WorldCom.
I mean, 40% man. IT HAS TO BE GOOD! Doesn’t it…???

…it does, doesn’t it…?

…?

Comment on Ricoh patents an impact resistant lens cap by Sahaja

Sahaja — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:32:32 +0000

Tupperware lids make great lens caps if you can find one the right size

Comment on Samsung NX20 now shipping in the US by Gex

Gex — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:52:22 +0000

Well, I’m not in the US and I surely won’t buy one. The only samsungs I’ve seen people with are compacts, or even the NX100 when its price fell faster than a piano thrown off the top of a 10 floor building

Comment on Pentax K-30 officially announced by Harold Ellis

Harold Ellis — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:48:19 +0000

reeeeeeeally nervous…

you know, it might happen just now…

with the release of this hideous crop camera

more then ever since film time

pentax have chance to go over 3% of market share!

Comment on Pentax K-30 officially announced by Rob

Rob — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:44:48 +0000

@Phil

Oh how I wish Pentax would pay Nikon to license CLS so we could have modern strobe support!

I have never put my K200 in a shower but after one beach shoot I thought I would never get all the sand off of it. I took it to Afghanistan resigned to the thought it would not last the year but despite epic dust storms, snow, rain and more than one hard hit, it came out just fine. And that was on top of the normal abuse of bouncing off my body armor, being tossed not the back of a HMMWV and generally subjected to harsh conditions. I used to laugh as the Combat Camera guys would scramble to cover their Nikon’s in ran that I didn’t think twice about shooting in.

Comment on Fujifilm releases their own adapter for Leica M lenses by Nico

Nico — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:35:13 +0000

Right about the lack of focus peaking… But the real interest here would be a focus assist with AF points of the OVF, otherwise Sony’s EVF are still better (and already with focus peaking)…

Comment on Fujifilm releases their own adapter for Leica M lenses by Nico

Nico — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:30:06 +0000

+1
Can’t agree more about focus confirmation……….

Comment on Fujifilm releases their own adapter for Leica M lenses by Craig

Craig — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:26:56 +0000

M lenses will be a good asset to the X-Pro1 if the Fuji body has a focus peaking function. Does it have focus peaking, anyone?

Comment on Fujifilm releases their own adapter for Leica M lenses by Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:09:38 +0000

Sure, will work with all M lenses ever made. Also, if you get an L39->M Adaptor too you can use all the Leica lenses made from the 1930′s till today.

To the Adaptor .. Well, not really what i expected, but i hope the will release some focus confirmation help with that new firmware too. Otherwise it will turn out just as useless for serious photography as the other brand adaptors, just with some nice gimmicks.

Comment on Fujifilm releases their own adapter for Leica M lenses by Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:59:21 +0000

Wow, I’m actually surprised that it’s only $200, anything that has to do with Leica has to be $2,000 more than what it needs too be

Comment on Fujifilm releases their own adapter for Leica M lenses by Harold Ellis

Harold Ellis — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:42:22 +0000

fuji does so many things right, but Y U NO RELEASE FULLFRAME RANGEFINDER?

so many people would forgive so many things to it…

also putting leica lenses on crop camera make sense if you already have many or to fight lack of own lenses to chose from, but they lose LOTS of its appeal when used cropped.

Comment on Pentax K-30 officially announced by Espen

Espen — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:12:44 +0000

My Pentax K10D is specified for 0C to 40C ,but has never failed at temperatures of even quite a bit below -20C, so -10 doesn’t mean it stops working there…

Comment on Ricoh patents an impact resistant lens cap by Philippos

Philippos — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:53:51 +0000

Not true.

A Sun hood is only good when the sun causes you trouble, creating all those stupid artifacts and reflections inside your lens. In my bag, all my sun hoods are on the lenses reversed for saving space.
Quite often I put a lens on my camera right off the bag, with the cap and the sun hood reversed. That doesn’t mean I don’t know what I’m doing.

What I would really need is a magnetic cap that stays on without any locking system and is removed by a single pull, without pressing or twisting or any other elaborate movement.