[Leica] Olympus Pen F Camera and lenses......

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

I used to have an FT and an FV and various lenses, not all at the 
same time: the 20/3.5, 38/2.8 pancake, 38/3.5 Macro, 40/1.4, 42/1.2, 
70/4 100/3.5, 150/4 and 50-90 zoom and I had a viso-Pen F adapter 
made. The main reason I got rid of it was that the lenses were quite 
poor on the whole.

Some lenses had the exposure numbers on a stick-on strip that you 
applied to the aperture ring.


>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.
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>mark@rabinergroup.com
>Mark William Rabiner
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>>  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!
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>>  Dogs? I'll have to take it out of its kennel for walkies.
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>>  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
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