The Nokton is reported to be a wonderful lens, not perfect but with unique and desirable characteristics. OTO, it is expensive and hard to get. I wanted a pancake because the whole point for me was a compact system.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: >> I read a rumor that Panasonic gave Olympus some of there parameters >> for the AF system. The point of this rumor discussion was what >> Olympus might have given in return. I love optical gossip ;-) > > Olympus doesn't really need Panasonic's help here ... whether > Panasonic gave them code or not is irrelevant to me. I know that > Olympus is working hard on optimizing CDAF performance and betting > their future pro-grade bodies on all-electronic viewing systems. > >> Be careful. These damned little things are addictive. Just get the >> body and maybe the Lumix 20 and 14. > > If I go for an E-PL2 + VF2, the lens I want to use with it is the > Cosina/Voigtländer Nokton 25mm f/0.95. The point of going for this > instead of a Fuji X100 is that I could *also* use my existing > FourThirds and other adapted manual DSLR lenses, which are terrific, > and because it's less expensive. The Nokton 25mm makes it more > expensive, though, and a little less convenient in size. That's why > it's hard to decide between them. > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
