Olympus pen camera hack

We get it. Not all photography is created equal. Choose your favorite subject:. Birds make for challenging subjects. Learn more. When it comes to wildlife photography, Olympus Visionary Jay Dickman is king of the jungle. With a 35mm equivalent focal length of mm this was the Pen F version of the typical mm lens on full frame 35mm cameras, offering a smidgen extra reach and a much smaller size.

It is quite a sharp little lens and it works very well on cameras with APS-C sized sensors. By the standards of the time, this was the first lens in the Olympus Pen F range that just nudged into super-telephoto range… it was also the longest lens in the Pen F range to retain a fully automatic aperture diaphragm.

Olympus made just 2 zoom lenses for the Pen F system. But the first was this lens, a mm zoom. The zoom ratio was, by modern standards, a very modest 1. Judging by the fact that even today this is a pretty common lens I can only assume that despite the limited zoom range, and the rather bulky dimensions, this was a popular lens that sold in quite large numbers.

As far as I am aware a tele-converter was one accessory that Olympus never made for the Pen F system, but when a company leaves such a gap in a popular system you can rely on the third party manufacturers to step in and fill it! This tiny little converter multiples the focal length by 2x and reduces aperture by 2 stops. It maintains the automatic diaphragm of the lens it is used with. Rather a slow combination, but it may have still be useful in a pinch!

One of the great things about modern compact system cameras CSCs… also known as mirrorless cameras is the ease with which they can be adapted to use classic lenses from bygone eras. This is because the distance between the sensor and the front of the lens mount the so called flange-back distance is much less than most film cameras designed for 35mm film. The manufacturers of many CSCs often make adapters themselves for example, Fujifilm make an adapter to fit Leica M mount lenses on their cameras.

But because a basic adapter is so easy to make, a host of small far east companies make adapters for practically every other mount you can imagine. Of course the Pen F mount is no exception. But because Olympus Pen F lenses are the only interchangeable lenses specifically designed for the 35mm half-frame format, they work particularly well when adapted for CSCs.

In fact the half frame format 18x24mm is only very slightly larger than the digital APS-C sensor format generally around The crop factor for half frame film is 1. Discover more challenges ». Fujifilm X-T4 2. Popular interchangable lens cameras ». Popular compact cameras ». Shedding some light on the sources of noise. Most bookmarked in this forum. Mobile site. Reproduction in whole or part in any form or medium without specific written permission is prohibited.

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IBIS when using unstabilized lenses. G9 vs Olympus xx for BIFs. Weak parts of Oly E-P5? Olympus Pro lens on EM1. Why was my post deleted? It still blows my mind…. So there it is. I cannot recommend this camera. It might not be to your liking. Heck, even a Fuji X10 or X30 would be better. Or the X-Pro1 that I loved so much. My D still works after a decade and never missed a beat. Driving a convertible on a dirt road for a day will cover everything with a fine moon-like dust. Another view from Torres del Paines in Chile.

In conclusion, the Pen-F was a great idea from Olympus: A classic stainless steel design with a modern sensor and the latest gizmos. I t was just too late. In , this thing would have sold like hot cake: Fuji had a terribly slow X-Pro1 and there was practically no other mirrorless. ISO …so much noise reduction. Give me more noise and less wax-like files. Friend playing with her Nikon. Very nice colours. View of the panamerican highway near Zorritos, Peru.

Just after the Ecuadorian border. Some boring street photography in black and white with the Pen-F. The Pen-F could have been the perfect street photography camera if Olympus would have updated the firmware to remove the annoying bugs, such as the deep sleep the camera goes in no matter what the energy preference is set to, in the menu.