Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To need to print those negs to see if they blow up well. A nice loupe is nice but the proof to me is always in the printing. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Douglas Barry <imra@iol.ie> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:16:28 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus Pen F Camera and lenses...... > > "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote >> The lens quality on the Pen F is shockingly bad you'd expect a lot more >> from >> Olympus certainly the major week link I the system as I look at it. >> I am though basing that certainly overly broad assumption opinion on just >> a >> few lenes >> >> I have the 38mm F. Zuiko Auto-S 1:1.8 >> And the 100mm E. Zuiko Auto-T 1:3.5 >> >> Both dogs. >> >> Woof! > > Dogs? I'll have to take it out of its kennel for walkies. > > I bought the Pen F this year out of curiosity from another photographer who > mentioned that he had one mouldering away in a cupboard. He was happy to > take 40 euro. Based on a quick blizzard of shots taken outside my office on > a test roll and dropped across to the C41 man across the street, I was > happy > with the purchase and the lens seems fine based on that limited test. That > said it's mouldering away in my own cupboard <grin>. I've been too busy to > shoot another film with it, so will stick in a roll tomorrow and give it a > more leisurely go. If it was good enough for W. Eugene Smith then I suspect > it's good enough for me. > > Douglas > _________ > Douglas Barry > Bray, Co. Wicklow > Republic of Ireland > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information