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Lenses | Sunday January 23 2011 1:25 am | Comments (2)

Only by using the AF101 can I now gauge the right type of lenses to use with this camera, if your goal is shallow depth of field then you must look at lenses with an ‘f’ stop of about f2 or less. This may seem extreme but unless you have the space to use a [...]

Canon 17-40mm f4 L lens

Lenses | Friday December 31 2010 1:06 am | Comments (0)

This is a great lens the Canon 17-40mm f4 L lens. I used a Kipon Canon adapter produced in Hong Kong which has a very clever 14 blade internal iris built in. I took both pictures with a Panasonic G2 mFT camera.

Voigtlander NOKTON 25mm f0.95 mFT lens

Lenses | Wednesday December 29 2010 11:09 pm | Comments (0)

This is a great wee lens from Voigtlander it’s a 25mm f0.95 micro Four Third lens and is a cracking interview lens. Look at the fantastic “bokeh” (out of focus or shallow depth of field) behind my good lady’s face. This is an extremely sharp lens and is made in Japan.

Panasonic 14-140mm f4-5.8 mFT lens

Lenses | Wednesday December 29 2010 11:06 pm | Comments (5)

As you can see at 140mm telephoto you are getting a useful shallow depth of field, this could easily be a still from an interview. Garry wrote in asking “Thanks for the site and tests so far but surely putting an F4 or f5.6 lens on a 4/3 sensor defeats the object and will give [...]

Panasonic 7-14mm f4 mFT lens

Lenses | Wednesday December 29 2010 11:01 pm | Comments (0)

This is my favourite lens to date as you get a cracking wide shot at the 7mm end of the zoom. It’s important to realise that this is by far the easiest way of testing mFT lenses on a Panasonic mFT G2 DSLR, the AF101 will not be any different and the stills camera set [...]