{"id":1606,"date":"2009-07-15T00:51:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2009-07-22T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T08:32:52","slug":"ef-goes-m43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Lensbabies Goes M43"},"content":{"rendered":"

What originally planned was to use only the 17mm f2.8 pancake lens on my E-P1 somehow didn’t last long. First I thought why not get an adapter to use the lens on my Pen F camera and later I had the itch to try using my Lensbabies on it. Duh! This means I’ll need two adapters! Ordered a Pen F to M43 adapter from ebay but it has not arrived as I’m typing this but managed to grab a Canon EF to M43 one from a local online camera store (Chiif Cameras<\/a>). Too bad Chiif Cameras brought in the Pen F one a little too late or I’d be able to save a couple of tens by buying from them instead.<\/p>\n

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The EF to M43 adapter. Didn’t expect it to be of this thickness but I guess there must be some technical reason why it’s so. It is just slightly thicker than the pancake lens!
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The Lensbaby Composer mounted on the E-P1 with the adapter<\/em><\/p>\n

I was only free to try out the setup about an hour ago. Yeah … another very busy evening and I was on the verge of collapse when I did these tests. Anyway .. here are 2 test shots …<\/p>\n

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The multi exposure feature on the E-P1 that I thought I’ll never ever use … now has some meaning\/use to me. I can use it when playing with the Lensbabies for some crazy cool doubles (and I’m just too lazy to do these layers stuff in Photoshop).<\/em><\/p>\n

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I do enjoy using the Lensbabies on the E-P1 lots. Now all I need is time to go play with them outdoors. Oh, since I was doing these tests, I decided to switch the E-P1 to video mode and mess around with the pinhole ‘art filter’ in it. As I mentioned before, I love the weird jerky effect and now paired with the Lensbaby and deliberately screwing up the white balance … the video mode is big fun! The white balance now makes it look a little like cross processed colors eh? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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I did try mounting my Tokina 10-17 fisheye on it and took few random shots and I realise the problem with using it is because the non-availability of the aperture ring. This means I can only use the lens wide open. Hmmm. Some test shots during the coming weekend might help. The other lens I tried was a Nikon mount Carl Zeiss Planer 50mm f1.4 that I mounted on the E-P1 using a Nikon to EF adapter plus the EF to M43 adapter. With this lens … there was no problem of changing apertures because there is an apeture ring on it. Yay!<\/p>\n

Will have to go read the manual to figure out how to use the manual focus assist (magnify!) screen during manual focus before I do more test shots.<\/p>\n

No regrets investing in this adapter although I can foresee myself using only the Lensbabies on my E-P1 with it but at least if I am going travelling with my E-P1, I can throw the Tokina fisheye for some extra fun.<\/p>\n

Okay … that’s all for now. I’ve been sleeping at around 2am for the last few nights and I should go try sleep earlier tonight. Oh wait! It’s almost 2am again! Arghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What originally planned was to use only the 17mm f2.8 pancake lens on my E-P1 somehow didn’t last long. First I thought why not get an adapter to use the lens on my Pen F camera and later I had the itch to try using my Lensbabies on it. Duh! … <\/p>\n

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