Panasonic G1, 50mm Sumicron F2.8 1/100

[djonesii]

Dear all;

Got the CQ adapter today, first shoots of my wife .....

50mm Sumicron Collapsible F2.8, 1/100 in the kitchen.

All is working well, can focus with "ground glass" only a lot of the time, not to hard to get the zoom with two buttons, iso and shutter pretty easy to get at, aperture is as usual, set on the lens.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3373/3270694260_69a6b36191_b.jpg

Please feel free to C&C or to ask questions!

Dave

[digitalintrigue]

How can you deal with the ridiculous crop factor? :)

I take it the lens won't hurt the G1 sensor/shutter when collapsed, or you aren't collapsing it.

[RayPA]

nice oofa there. oh wait, you're not supposed to be getting nice oofa. :)

I've been playing with my adapter (sounds kind of raunchy, but you know what I mean), but haven't had the chance to do much with it, except attach different lenses and run practice manual focusing.


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[RayPA]

How can you deal with the ridiculous crop factor? :)
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obviously a man who doesn't know how to eat a pizza!


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[back alley]

i'm afraid that photo has been faked!
could it possibly be that someone has found a way to usefully use a 50 mm lens on a camera with a 2x crop factor?
that would produce a 100 mm lens, something i have never heard of before...;)

nice photo. i like using my 50 on the g1 as well.


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3440/3261633734_e8cd8436dd_b.jpg

[digitalintrigue]

It doesn't look like a 50/2 Collapsible Summicron took that photo, because the camera only used the center part of the lens.

Same for Joe's photo. Where is all the edge softness we all love so dearly?

You people are heretics. :)

[djonesii]

Dear forum guys .....

I think we may be on to something here with that crop factor thing....

A FOV of an effective 100mm and F2 seems to have gotten at least two photos with nice OOF areas. I'm not near enough of a leicaphile to know how this compares to B&W film at ISO 400, scanning and then cropping, but from the few little tests I have done, this $400 body is quite effective for the lenses that I have.

I still want a fast 50mm FOV, I'm on the hunt for cine lenses next to fill that niche. Or, I can just pony up the $$ for a Zeiss 24mm 2.8.

I only have ever mouted it LOCKED out first. I'm just too afraid of the open sensor to even thing about collapsing the lens.

Dave

[digitalintrigue]

These lenses work very well with the smaller sensor, as you have found. The photographic ability of the camera is proven. The problem with crop factor isn't with the camera, it's with the photographer. ;)

I'm trying out one of these with a c-mount adapter:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310121808864

[djonesii]

Dear digitalintrigue;

How's it working out? Is there serious vignetting? I've followed various threads from getdpi, and it seems that Hawk is selling the adapter on the bay, but he is out of the now.....

Dave

[RayPA]

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i like using my 50 on the g1 as well.



seriously nice, joe. looks fabulous.


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[Avotius]

Do not try collapsing your lenses with the adapter, it will muck up the inside of your camera and will cause a a lot of grief indeed!

[back alley]

seriously nice, joe. looks fabulous.


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thanks!


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