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20130421-0032

            As a little experiment today I decided to go out with only my Fujifilm X-E1 and a handful of classic Olympus Pen F Zuiko lenses. (To be specific I took the 25mm f4, 40mm f1.4 and 100mm f3.5 lenses… all beautifully compact and easy to carry!)

I found the experiment worked out pretty well! Manual focusing on the X-E1 turns out to be a pretty easy, convenient and enjoyable thing, despite the absence of the latest focusing technology like focus peaking.

Olympus Pen F half-frame lenses make a great deal of sense on an APS-C mirrorless camera like the X-E1. The format they were designed for (i.e. half-frame 35mm or 18x24mm) is only very slightly larger than the size of a typical ASP-C sensor (about 15.6x23.6mm) so you are using the lenses very close to their intended field of view. In other words a wide angle is still a wide angle (just about 8% less wide angle).

But whatever the technicalities,I guess the proof of the pudding is in the eating (or looking, in the case of photographs!) so what do you think?

Ironically Olympus Pen F lenses make much more sense on the X-E1 than they do on an Olympus Digital Pen! I've been wondering for a while just how practical it would be to get by with nothing but Olympus Pen F lenses, and I have to say I'm quite please with my first experiment. I will now be looking for more Pen F lenses… it's just a shame that the most desirable ones (like the 38mm macro, 60mm f1.5 and 70mm f2) are so damned expensive!!

Taken in: United Kingdom / Scotland / Edinburgh / Greenside (show map)

Taken on: April 21, 2013

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Camera: Fujifilm X-E1, f/1.0, 1/640 sec, 40mm (=60mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-E1
Lens:	40.0 mm
Aperture:	f/1.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	40mm (35mm equivalent: 60mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4 (Macintosh)
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