The µ43 thread - welcome to the really dark side

been reading up recently on these and just bit the bullet and ordered me an olympus omd em10 and 17mm 1.8 lens to go with. Want to use for street photography and love the idea of having something light and really small in my bag for such things. Beats taking out the 5diii and a 35 1.4 i'd imagine..

hopefully i can get on with it. I dabbled with the fuji x100s but it didn't quite do it for me so sold it. Determined to give this one for of a chance though. Love the idea of the touch screen and being able to discretely touch it and for the camera to instantly take a pic, focused on where you touched. That could be a game changer for discrete street stuff for me :)
 
What do you guys think of the Olympus 17mm 1.8? I'm thinking of getting this for the other half who has an Olympus Pen. The Panasonic 20mm 1.7 seems like a lens that many have gone for in the past but the focusing speed wasn't great so the Olympus was more of interest to me.
 
snow patrol said:
been reading up recently on these and just bit the bullet and ordered me an olympus omd em10 and 17mm 1.8 lens to go with. Want to use for street photography and love the idea of having something light and really small in my bag for such things. Beats taking out the 5diii and a 35 1.4 i'd imagine..

hopefully i can get on with it. I dabbled with the fuji x100s but it didn't quite do it for me so sold it. Determined to give this one for of a chance though. Love the idea of the touch screen and being able to discretely touch it and for the camera to instantly take a pic, focused on where you touched. That could be a game changer for discrete street stuff for me :)
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One of the things I love about these Olympus cameras is that they are great for taking pictures of people/with people in. I find a DSLR can make people dive for cover sometimes! The Olympus camera looks a lot less imposing.
 
Had someone buy my 12-40mm off my for £60 delivered about 3 months ago! stick on as buy it now and you might get lucky! Is Infernox still visiting this page ,I have a deal to strike :D
 
My new olympus omd em-1 40-150mm combination in use

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i have to say - been playing around with my new omd em10 and 17mm 1.8 and i think it's the best thing i've bought myself for absolutely ages. Such a great camera. The focus is so fast, the touch screen focus / shutter option is amazing...love it.

already considering other lenses. Would love something wide but the 12mm f2 is v expensive...are there any cheap old manual focus lenses i should be looking at?

also, i'm finding the wireless functionality a bit flakey. Keep having to rescan that q code on my phone, then when i get in as it were, importing photos doesn't show all the photos on the sd card, only a few. Am i missing something? known issues with such things?

so glad i've bought this camera though. I dabbled with a small street camera about 2 years ago with the x100s but this blows it out of the water (and is cheaper :D )
 
Thaifood said:
is the e-pl5 any good? a couple good deals or so it seems for just over £330 with 2 lens
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Yes!
I've had mine since last May after changing from EOS 600D.
Cannot fault the image quality at all.
I actually bought a used EVF for it but have only used it for testing so far.

If you want to see sample images just look at my Flickr feed. All the more recent images are from it.
I have bought extra lenses for mine, but the kit ones seem more than good enough to start with though.
 
Anyone got any experience of the Olympus 9mm "body cap" lens. Recently bought an OMD-EM10 with the 14-42 g 40-150 lenses but think something a bit wider would be useful. Previously used a canon SX10 which was 24mm equiv at its widest (and back when I had a Pentax ME Super had a 24mm lens) so the widest 28mm equiv of the 14-42 isn't as wide. Things like the 9-18 zoom aren't in (immediate!) price range so wondering if the £80 body cap lens was worth it ... alternatively there's a wide angle converter at a similar price - is that better (slight issue that don't think this goes over a filter so couldn't keep a UV filter on lens all the time.)
 
I've looked at this too as in the same boat. Although I have the 12-40 I would still like something a bit wider.
You could also look at the Samyang lenses as some are priced reasonably I think.
I wouldn't worry about the UV filter. I've never used any filters on lenses unless for a specific reason - polarising, graduated etc.
Just another piece of glass to degrade the final image!

Perhaps someone can answer this too:
Why do all the wide angle lenses for M43 fisheye format, rather than 'normal' wide angle?

It's putting me off buying this or any other wide lens to be honest. Seems a bit odd as fisheye is not usually something generally considered 'good' is it?
 
ajf said:
Yes!
I've had mine since last May after changing from EOS 600D.
Cannot fault the image quality at all.
I actually bought a used EVF for it but have only used it for testing so far.

If you want to see sample images just look at my Flickr feed. All the more recent images are from it.
I have bought extra lenses for mine, but the kit ones seem more than good enough to start with though.
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love the pictures.. what lens did you use for them?
 
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