Hi Andre... Andre Langevin wrote: > > Keith whaley: > > >Oly Wide-E. with a G. Zuiko-W F.C. 1:3.5 f=3.5cm. lens. > > A point, zone focus and shoot camera! How is the lens?
Most excellent! I have some film out now. I'll report back... It's been a long time since I put a roll thru one, so I'm doing it again. Has it's own meter, as well... > >a couple of 35 SPs, with the phenomonal G-Zuiko 1:1.7 f=42mm lens > > Very sharp, very high contrast, impressive lens indeed. And the SP > has an in-camera spot meter! It does indeed... <g> > >Oly 35-S with a E. Zuiko 1:2.8 f=4.5 cm. lens. Talk about a sharp > >lens in a rangefinder! Beautiful color, good contrast and overall, > >a lovely lens. > > I also have one of these (S II 2.8) but have not tried it yet. Isn't > it a 4.8cm lens rather? Yes it is. I depended on my old eyes, and they weren't up to the task of reading those small numbers. Sorry. You're correct! In fact, mine's an SII as well. I used it in a trade several years ago. Didn't have much trading material at the time, and as it was the least of the goodies, at the time, it left my hands. Then a couple of years later, I got out the old pictures I had taken with it, and put the negatives under magnification and was MOST impressed with what was on the negs, that the shop printing them had missed! Excellent resolution! I managed to talk the previous owner out of it. Fortunately, he was in a camera slump and agreed to sell it back to me. Great! It stays this time! Both the SII and the Wide-E are detailed on this site: http://www.claus-marin.de/olympuseng.htm > Interestingly, it's not a Tessar type lens > like most 2.8 lenses from that era, but a 5 elements 4 groups one. > Olympus says (sings) in the camera booklet that this "lens eliminates > all types of spherical and chromatic aberration. It gives perfect > horizontal and vertical delineation, is completely free from > astigmatism, is fully coated and corrected." Well... > > The camera you want now is the Wide-S with a 35mm f/2. Olympus > mentions the lens is highly corrected for distorsion among other > things. From two test slides I took (brick wall and buildings), it > seems so. You're right! I've been looking. I'll get one sometime! Fact is, I was really looking for the Wide-S when I ran across the Wide-E! Ah well, all in good time... > As it is not an OT thread... I'll add that, from a friend's > experience, Pentax's first AF P&S, the AF35, has a very good lens, a > non-Tessar 5 elements in 5 groups. A small metal point and shoot, > with exposure control (asa ring) contrary to later DX decoding > cameras. Never have held one. I'll keep my eyes open. > Andre > -- keith whaley
