Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/20

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Olympus E-P1 and 90mm Leica Summicron
From: digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:48:54 -0500
References: <00f801ca071d$2daba4b0$80f510ac@chris0436b6050> <DEB7F208-79C0-4605-B7A8-FEE2569A36FF@ameritech.net>

Chris,

Where did your get the adapter to use the 90 on the E-P1?

Jim

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Dante Stella<dstella1 at ameritech.net> 
wrote:
> Chris:
>
> Nice... I take it the vignetting on Trim Castle was induced?
>
> How is the response time for startup and shooting? ?I am really tempted by
> this camera (particularly since it can be adapted to so many lenses I
> already own), but the two off-putting things are (1) that it doesn't have 
> an
> optical finder (at least one that you could use simultaneously with a 
> flash)
> and (2) the possibility that it will grunt and stutter like a pocket camera
> when you jam that shutter button down (at least the GRDII now seems to have
> shutter release priority in its current FW....).
>
> What's your impression of the general responsiveness?
>
> Cheers
> Dante
>
> On Jul 17, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Chris Williams wrote:
>
>> I think if I owned this camera, this would be my favorite choice for
>> manual lens. It's easier to focus a 90mm with the E-p1 than with an M8.
>>
>> So here are a few early test images. The Trim Castle shot was with the
>> 14-42mm lens that comes with the camera, otherwise the other 3 images are
>> all 90mm Summicron.
>>
>> More to come, the sun is still up at 9:30pm so plenty of light for photos.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/zoeica/EP1/
>>
>> Chris
>> NOLA via Sligo,Ireland
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from zoeica at mac.com (Chris Williams) ([Leica] IMG: Olympus E-P1 and 90mm Leica Summicron)
Message from dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella) ([Leica] IMG: Olympus E-P1 and 90mm Leica Summicron)