When i am travelling light, the 14mm f2.5 is never off my camera, it's a lovely little lens.
And the Olympus 40-150 is a really good choice, a bit plasticky but very light, cheap and is also always with me.
The P12-32 is a great little lens -there's usually black ones around for £100-ish ( i bought one as i prefer black lenses with a black body ). I also have the P20 - it can be slow to focus in low light but its incredibly sharp and small. Love it
my ride to work by damianmkv, on Flickr
P12-32 made explore yesterday
the river wey by damianmkv, on Flickr
You’re on the right line, the 14mm is a very nice lens and the 40-150 is also very good.
Personally I’d go with an EM10 over the first EM5.
This seems a good place to ask:
Long story short. Been shooting with Fuji the last year or so. It's been both my main camera and travel camera. But I'm going back to a DSLR for serious stuff and I'm likely to pick up either an E-M5 mk1 or an E-m10 mk1 as a travel, days out kind of camera. I've had an E-M5 and an E-M5ii in the past and a few different lenses but I'm really trying to keep this all quite budget and portable so this time around I'm looking for smaller, cheaper lenses. I basically want something short ish and something longish. Sorry I'm not more specific but that's about the size of it!
I'm currently borrowing an E-M5 with a panasonic 12-32 Lens. It's quite nice though it bugs the hell out of me that the lens is silver and the camera is black! But the lens performs well enough and I have the option to buy it for about £90. The other options I was considering here were the Panasonic 14mm 2.5 and the Olympus 17mm 2.8. My gut feeling is that I'd be happiest overall with the 14mm.
Longer lens is likely to be a 40-150r. I assume this is a still a decent budget choice? I've flirted with the idea of just getting a 45mm 1.8 instead but I suspect it would be a bit too restrictive.
Any pearls of wisdom or am I already on the right lines?
The 12-32 turns up on MPB often for in around the £110 mark. If the silver bothers you, don't buy it, it'll drive you mad - MPB have a bunch of them atm between £109 and £119: https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equi...ix-g-vario-12-32mm-f-3-5-5-6-asph/sku-748140/
They also have the 14mm 2.5 going for £134: https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equi...nses/panasonic-lumix-g-14mm-f-2-5/sku-752003/
FWIW if you're really looking to be cost effective the Olympus 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 II-R lens is decent and very, very cheap.Cheers Cagey. I'm being a skinflint and trying to find them super cheap but if that fails, MPB look a good bet.
OK Fujis sold on eBay, so now on the lookout for a nice used 12-40mm 2.8
Yeah, I've seen the price on HDEW, they're about the same, even less sometimes, than a 2nd hand one from the likes of MPB or WEX. It was the same with the EM5 MKII for another £50 I could have bought a new one. I've no problem with those who want to buy from a grey importer, none at all, but I personally prefer to buy from a uk based company. Thats not a judgment call on anyone who uses them, its just my personal preference.Depending on how much you have to spend it may be worth getting new grey from HDEW.
https://www.hdewcameras.co.uk/olympus-mzuiko-digital-ed-12-40mm-f28-pro-2164-p.asp
Thanks for that, its a good price. Will have to register and maybe look to buy. Do they have a feedback system on there, like TP?There's one on e-group for £365
FWIW if you're really looking to be cost effective the Olympus 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 II-R lens is decent and very, very cheap.
Mine came bundled with my E-PL5 and to my eye it compares to the 14-42mm EZ pancake.
Downsides - it's a bit larger and you have to unlock it.
Upsides - it's a manual zoom which some prefer.
Not sure what the differences between my II R and this ED but worth researching.
https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equi...s-m-zuiko-ed-14-42mm-f-3-5-5-6-ed/sku-751052/
Again if you're not over bothered about size the Olympus 12-50 that came bundled with the E-M5 is worth a look.
Has a macro switch IIRC.
http://www.camerajungle.co.uk/camera-lenses?85-lens-fitting=micro-four-thirds
I used the Olympus 17mm f2.8 for a while, I liked the focal length so much I upgraded to the f1.8 version
I should probably sell it on as it's not left the house in a couple of years!
https://flic.kr/s/aHsm1iKTF8
Not as such. On there, you make an offer via PM and discuss things via that method. I've never heard of any "funny business" so to speak...
The regular 14-42 and the 12-50 are just a bigger than I want.
No way, the 14-42 is tiny!
https://www.olympus.co.uk/site/en/c...o/m_zuiko_digital_14_42mm_13556_ez/index.html
No way, the 14-42 is tiny!
https://www.olympus.co.uk/site/en/c...o/m_zuiko_digital_14_42mm_13556_ez/index.html
Well the EZ is smaller than the 17mm 2.8
Quick couple of question I might have asked before
Any one still using an em1.1 ? Is the Em5.2 significantly better and is the em1.2 significantly better than all of them ? Also how does the pen f stand up ?
Lol just looking to spruce up my kit in the next few months
I currantly have a em1.1 and a Em5.1
And grips and flashes etc
Love the em1
Don’t love the Em5 much but use it .
My walk about camera is an OMD EM10 Mk1 which is fitted with the 14-42mm EZ lens and the Olympus grip. It's my favourite camera, a pleasure to use and makes much more sense for casual use than my EM1 Mk1 or GH3. I also have a Pen EPL-6 which is fitted with the Panasonic 12-32mm lens, I use this when touring on my motorbike where any camera is subject to a lot of vibration on the bike, I don't need to feel too precious about this camera suffering any damage. I also have the other lenses you mention and these are my thoughts:
The Panasonic 12-32mm lens I find to be really good for such a compact and lightweight lens, which is usefully wider than the typical 14-42mm kit lenses. At £90 it is worthy of serious consideration.
The Olympus 40-150mm lens is also a very good lens for the cost, considered by many to punch well above above it's weight for image quality and normally available secondhand at a very reasonable cost.
The Panasonic 14mm lens I am not so thrilled with, in my humble opinion it doesn't offer any significant advantage to the 12-32mm lens zoomed to 14mm, a fraction more light captured but quite slow to focus.
The Olympus 45mm is a very nice lens indeed, ideal for portraits, but otherwise of limited use with that specific focal length.
The OMD EM10 Mk1 or the Mk2 are both excellent cameras for around the £200 to £300 price range secondhand and sometimes new, but the cameras come with the usual caveats relating to the contrast detect autofocus which does not match phase detect cameras. The scope for video is limited by the autofocus. I maintain that the image quality from the Pen, EM10 and EM1 are essentially the same, the higher end models have more features and such as better image stabilisation which might permit shooting to continue as the lesser models become more challenged by the available light.
Smaller EVF too, which is the main reason I didn't consider it.I’ve not used a PEN F but essentially it is an EM5ii with a 20mp sensor in a rangefinder style body and a funny knob on the front that controls what jpg setting, and minus the weather sealing. I went with the EM5ii and wouldn’t swap.
Smaller EVF too, which is the main reason I didn't consider it.
I prefer the Rangefinder style too which is why I loved the XE range, which is why I was initially drawn to the PenF. But, I need a better viewfinder than the PenF provides.Only really the Pen F that appeals to me from the Olympus m4/3 range, find the rangefinder style so much more comfortable to use.
Currently using a Panasonic GX80 and if I ever got a new m4/3 camera it would be the Pen F, wonder if there will ever be a MkII?
Bought itThere's one on e-group for £365
I prefer the Rangefinder style too which is why I loved the XE range, which is why I was initially drawn to the PenF. But, I need a better viewfinder than the PenF provides.