zuikoholic
Active Member
Earl, that was no problem
Better resolution is obtained when stopped down of course, but as the E-1 will crop off a lot of the image I wouldn't be surprised if the 21/2 performs well enough wide-open as well. I guess my images show the worse-case situations of the two lenses, but a crop camera will cut a lot of the problems away.
Before I got my 5D, I used the 21/2 on my 10D more than any other lens. No light fall-off was seen that I recall, even wide-open, so I think it will be more than fine on any crop camera you get. (Try to get a camera with a split-image and/or microprism in the focusing screen because with a small viewfinder these lenses are hard to focus by eye alone: even the 5D's viewfinder seems much smaller than that of the OM-1 etc., at least from memory - my old film cameras are packed away - I'll have to get them out to compare viewfinders.)
Better resolution is obtained when stopped down of course, but as the E-1 will crop off a lot of the image I wouldn't be surprised if the 21/2 performs well enough wide-open as well. I guess my images show the worse-case situations of the two lenses, but a crop camera will cut a lot of the problems away.
Before I got my 5D, I used the 21/2 on my 10D more than any other lens. No light fall-off was seen that I recall, even wide-open, so I think it will be more than fine on any crop camera you get. (Try to get a camera with a split-image and/or microprism in the focusing screen because with a small viewfinder these lenses are hard to focus by eye alone: even the 5D's viewfinder seems much smaller than that of the OM-1 etc., at least from memory - my old film cameras are packed away - I'll have to get them out to compare viewfinders.)