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They hated Jesus for speaking the truth! I am very biased but I agree with you. You just can’t beat the Zuiko lenses, especially when you factor in the price. The first camera I ever repaired was my Olympus XA2 and I only fixed it because prices were getting insane and I just couldn’t part with it. The XA2 is my go-to P&S and i’ working on fixing up an XA. A kind stranger just sold me an OM-1 for $1 because they didn’t want to contribute to the insane price hikes going with film cameras and I feel so blessed. I could go on about Olympus cameras all day. 😂 My love for film grew 10X using Olympus cameras. Olympus cameras are well made, pretty compact, and, also very stylish in my opinion. Craftsmanship is excellent and they’re such a wide variety of OM lenses to choose from but even your standard 50mm f1.8 is is great! Ignore the haters, it’s just preference at the end of the day 😂 let them stay mad lol
Interesting to see someone still doing this. From 1980 to 2008 I was a photographer in the USAF. For me anyway, we used Nikons because: that is what was issued to us; they take a beating; you can put a lot of film through them without mechanical failure. For me, they always worked. Even then, you had two camera bodies on you so if one did fail, you could still do an assignment. With that said, I have used the Olympus OM-1n, 24mm, 50mm, 135mm, 200mm extensively. They were a heck of a lot lighter. THAT counts for a lot as if you are shooting often, you get fatigued. 2x OMs around the neck and if doing close in work, one was with a 50mm the other a 24mm. Usually photographing a lot of uncontrolled events. The ergonomics of the OM-1 (I have not shot the OM-10 so I can't speak on that), make it much more useful than a lot of other cameras. You are on to something with the lenses, at least the ones I have used. I thought the images (for me Kodachrome and Ektachrome) are of really good contrast. And as for reliability. I did not have one fail on me, which for me negates the alleged advantage of the Nikon since you can buy a lot more Olympus equipment for the dollar. And if you do damage an OM-1 or whatever, it is cheap to replace. I still have an OM-1 and a 50mm on the shelf. I only shoot digital now, so whatever. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work.
Hello 👋🏻 thank you for watching and sharing your stories and experiences with cameras. I find people like yourself who shot film when that’s all there was really interesting to hear from. I have had no issues with my Olympus cameras either despite what I’ve heard from people about them failing. I do like Nikon and own many Nikon cameras but my OM10 is just what I find myself always reaching for. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻🙋🏻♀️📸
I bought my OM-2 in 1993 and was more than impressed by Zuiko lenses. Yoshihisa Maitani said the lens is the soul of the camera and while he was at Olympus he made sure the lenses produced the most beautiful immages.
I have an Olympus Om-1 with the 50mm 1.8 lens and I love it. ZUIKO lenses are definitely special, and I can't wait to try more of their ZUIKO lens line up.
The Olympus OM-1 the 50mm f1.8 was my first serious camera - bought back in the 70s from one of the big discount camera shops in Shinjuku when I was studying in Tokyo. I chose it over the Nikon FM because it just felt better in my hand. I loved that kit even with a buggy light meter for it's size that let me carry it everywhere. It was stolen in the 80s and a friend gave me a Canon to replace it, but I still miss that first OM1.
I recently picked up an Olympus M-1 body with M-System Auto-S 50mm f1.8 lens. As readers may be aware, the ‘O’ was added following a complaint by Leica about the use of M-1. I find the history of cameras fascinating.
I started shooting with an Olympus OM-1 in 1978. It was the third camera I'd tried. I'm still shooting on OM-1 (and OM-2) today. It was their compactness, design and lenses that got me hooked. My two go-to lenses were 24mm f/2.8 and the 50mm f/1.8, and still are, even though I now have a full range of Zuiko glass up to a 190mm f/2.8. I travelled all over Australia and Asia with them. Those lenses and Kodachrome produced fantastic images. When I went digital, I stuck with Olympus for a while because of the Zuiko glass, but then had a 10 year affair with Canon, but I saw the error of my ways and have gone back to Olympus for digital, and the Zuiko lenses are still as stunning as ever, and even sharper. Even though the Olympus camera division no longer exists, the legacy of Maitani lives on.
Great video. I agree about the quality of Zuiko lenses. My dad was a professional photographer, a photojournalist, and a photography professor. When he passed away, I inherited his gear: Olympus OM2S & a plethora of amazing glass. I’ve been shooting with it since 1992 when I took my first darkroom class and started working at a camera store. I’ve seen many types of cameras, lenses, & gear over the years but I am still as in love with my Olympus gear as I was 30 years ago. I bought Nikon film & later digital gear to get auto focus, etc. I got an amazing deal because of where I worked. I have a collection of gear after working in the industry for 19 years, but my Olympus is definitely my fave gear. I witnessed the very beginning of digital photography and later saw film cameras practically being thrown away. People literally donated large amounts of cameras and lenses to my store because they didn’t know what to do with it. It makes me happy to watch your videos. I thought the world killed film and I’m glad that it isn’t dead. Thanks for sharing your content. -Merry in Virginia, US
Got a notification from fstoppers for this video link. So happy to finally see people acknowledge the quality of zuiko glass which IMO is so under rated. I love my Zuiko 50mm f1.8, Zuiko 135mm f3.5, Zuiko 135mm f2.8 and finally the Zuiko 200mm f4. Super sharp lenses with amazing contrast and character.
I have the very rare and sought-after Zuiko 35mm f/2 and along with my 28mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.8 are my three very favourite lenses, along with my beautiful all-black OM-2n body. I’ve shot OM’s all my life and will never shoot anything else
The 28mm f2.8 is second to none! I’ve been using it on my OM-4 and I’m obsessed. It’s so small and perfect for street photography. Will be testing it on my OM-1 soon.
vouch for the 28mm!! i like it for video too, adapted to my sony. i have a 50 1.4 but unfortunately have a good amount of fungus :/. i rarely shoot 50 but a part of me still yearns for a clean copy
Hi Lucy, this is the first time the algorithm has been kind enough to introduce me to your channel. Thanks for sharing your experience with Olympus gear. I've had an Olympus M1 for over 50 years. My grandad, who was an avid photographer, gave it to me for my 7th birthday after he picked it up during a business trip to Japan. Dad was furious with him for such a lavish gift, but he got over it. The OM series is what the M series became after Leica objected to Olympus' use of the 'M' moniker. I use only an early M-System Zuiko 50mm F1.4 lens, which interestingly is radioactive due to the use of thorium in the glass. I love the combination and have taken it all over the world with me, and it's never let me down.
Ho iniziato a fotografare nel 1985 con una Olympus Om4 e lo Zuiko 50mm f/3,5 macro. Nel tempo ho acquistato il 18mm, il 24mm f:2, il 35mm f:2, il 55mm f:1,2, il 90 mm f:2 macro ed il 180mm f:2,8 con il moltiplicatore 1,4x. Nel reportage (matrimoni, teatro... ) ero a mio agio e per la compattezza del sistema ed anche la discrezione duranto lo scatto, poco rumoroso. Nel tempo ho acquistato la Om4ti e Om3 per avere (come con la 0m4) una precisione nellla esposizione con le diapositive insuperabile grazie alla misurazione multi spot. Con il digitale sono rimasto in casa Olympus nel sistema 4/3 e poi micro 4/3. Ancora oggi uso una reflex E-5 Oly professionale (l'ultima della serie) anche con i vecchi Zuiko Om che ho conservato, mentre altri li ho venduti. Infine con la Panasonic G9 e l'adattatore Metabones 0,64x... di fatto quasi ripristino angolo e profondità di campo delle ottiche Zuiko Om sul micro 4/3. Ad esempio lo Zuiko 55mm diventa un 35mm f:0,8 !!!! Posso fotografare con pochissima luce ambiente. ;) la pellicola non la uso dal 2004... e va bene così: la vita è bellissima.
Nice to see that you are testing the camera that I bought in 1982 and it was my first camera. I only got to know how good this cameras was , as I was progressing in my photography and getting to the point where I went from Nikon over canon eos to Leica. Now you won’t believe it, I still have those zuiko lenses and I use them on my Leica too. So cheers from Germany and happy shooting 😊
Another masterpiece from Lucy and Lux! Beautiful music and editing! Stunning images also 👍. I have a tiny Zuiko on my Original Olympus Pen and it’s amazing! I also just got my Canon Prima Mini from Cameron delivered yesterday, just forgot the battery, so psyched to put a roll in it! Thanks for another beautiful video! ❤️
Back in the mid 1980s, I got an Olympus OMG from a pawn shop in Fullerton California. It is by far my favorite camera and the Zuiko lenses that I got for it have never failed to provide quality photographs.
I always loved the Olympus gear. When I worked at a camera store in the 2000s, I was able to play with all the great used gear side by side, and the OM series were always some of my favorites. Great vid, Lucy!
Hey Pete! Thanks for watching buddy glad you enjoyed. Oh yeah they are just the best and I am always reaching for my OM10 as it suits my style and needs so well. Simple and light to carry around 🙋🏻♀️👍🏻
The 50mm f/1.2 is legendary. Perhaps my favourite lens - wide open it has a magic (thanks in part to its spherical aberration) and then from f/2 upwards it's bitingly sharp. All that in package about the same size as 50 1.8s from other manufacturers.
Amazing : you reminded me why I switched to MFT all those years ago and I’m not tempted away . I have a great portrait lens which I don’t use very much and a great walk about option glued to the body . The kit zoom is good , but gets little use these days . For wide angle shots then my phone covers that pretty well . In fact, I have come to rely more on my phone because it is with most of the time , but the camera is another experience entirely and one I get most pleasure from.
my very first film camera was an olympus OM-10 from my grandfather, I absolutely loved it! I then got an OM-1 several years later that I still use, my mom and I think Zuiko glass is totally the best! Great reveiw as always :)
I used to shoot with an OM30 and some of their lenses. Sadly I no longer still have the kit. I sold it off when I went digital in the early 2000's, but I kept my Canon EOS30 camera that I bought to replace the OM30. The OM30 required a lot of LR44 batteries! (five of them!) The shutter used magnets to control the speed of the shutter, I had them changed on mine after about 5 years. The OM30 was compact and lightweight. Thanks for the video, spoiled today with one from you and OMTC!
I got my first OM10 in 1991 and I've still got it upstairs with a spare, and two Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 lenses, among others. I've not used it since going digital, but I need to put Ektachrome back through it, and possibly Ektar. The images were quite wonderful.
Just can't beat Olympus with a Zuiko lens, I look forward to watching more of your Olympus experience. I'm currently shooting with an old OM2 and a 28mm Zuiko lens which I mainly use here in Glasgow, just got a roll back today and was amazed by the pictures. So yes Olympus with Zuiko all the way.
New subscriber to your channel. Love the content! Especially this vlog because the Olympus 35mm slr's are near and dear to me. The OM-2N was my first camera and it gifted to me by my late father who introduced me to photography when I was 17 yrs. Almost 40 years later, my OM-1 and OM-2 are still my fav film cameras. There is just something about the character of zuiko glass that you can't replicate with any other film camera imo. Cheers!
The OM1n is still one of my favourite 35mm film cameras, and yes, I have more than one. The prime glass is excellent and I feel much overlooked. I would give the zoom lenss a bit of a body swerve though, but then all zoom glass from that time was not as good as the modern equivalent, but the Zuiko primes, even the slower glass just can't be beaten.
As someone who has Leica R and M glass (on film and digital), as well as a long-time (my first camera in HS) OM user, I can tell you that Zuiko glass can hold its own against Leica glass optically and artistically. It has its own character, but so does a Summicron. Now, my modern Leica M glass is technically better at CA, distortion, etc. but I like the rendering of my Zuiko 50mm f/1.4 better than my Summicron or the Summilux. If you shoot film, it's pretty simple...if you LOVE a rangefinder and like to be light and have superb quality, shoot Leica glass (or a properly calibrated TT Artisan) and either a Konica Hexar RF, Bessa or Leica...and spend the $$ on it. If you like an SLR or don't care, the Olympus OM system and glass will hold its own against the Leica...no, the level of fit and finish and dampening etc. isn't quite there on the Olympus, and dang that shutter slap, but My OM4 and Zuiko glass holds it's own against my Leica R5...the R5 is just a bit more "refined". Zuiko glass can't be beat on the SLR side for size, style (sorry Pentax you ugly), weight, ergonomics and quality. The only downside is that with age, the OM bodies aren't as reliable as others IMO. I'm on my 4th OM4...ugh. The hidden gem might be the OM-G (OM-20)...they have been rock solid for me and don't eat batteries...and they have a very nice add on grip. And look for a "made in japan" (lowercase) 50mm f/1.8...it will knock your socks off at 1.8 even compared to the f/1.4.
It’s a sunny 70°F/21°C day here in Florida. This literal calm before the storm (Hurricane Ian is on its way). Im you’ve inspired me to take a break this afternoon and take out my OM-10 for a photowalk to enjoy the weather. In honor of your fav glass I’ll use the 50mm 1.8.
I use zuiko 50mm 1.8 for long time. I got interested in 1.4 from this video. Thanks for sharing your love of zuiko. One more thing I love about olympus is the sound of shutter.
It's good to see, that you found a lens type and brand, that matter to you 🙂 You really did nail so many shots with those Zuiko 50mm lenses. Having no experience with Zuiko lenses myself, I can't say if you're right or not. But, considering how many great lenses from many different brands I have myself, in my opinion it is entirely a matter of personal preference. I'm partial to Voigtländer myself. I also have this vintage 90mm Leica M-mount lens, that has build quality second to none in my opinion. But, I also get great results with my Nikon (AF), Canon (FD and EF), Minolta, Konica, Sigma, Sony, Fujica and Pentax glass. I have more f/1.4 (45-55mm) lenses, than I care to admit, because they just work for me. I will say, that many lens makers produce high precession lenses for things like scientific purposes - not only Olympus. Very cool tee btw.
I watched this as I was searching for videos on Zuiko lenses, my first ever camera was the Olympus OM10 (nice to see you have the manual adaptor!) with Zuiko 50mm, I currently shoot with a Fuji X-T2 and want to try some vintage glass and figured the Zuiko would be perfect, before even typing this reply I've already ordered one and a mount adaptor, hearing you talk so lovingly about my first ever set up made me so nostalgic... that I can see me also getting an OM10 body in the next few days too!
I felt the same magic when I met that lens! I liked it so much that I got an adapter to bring it to my digital cam. Love your videos, but I've never commented before
Love Zuiko lenses and Oly cameras. Pentax and Minolta also render nicely… not as consistently as Zuiko. I’d put their primes on par with any Leica… crazy but true.
If you want a lightweight camera get your self a Pentax ME or any of the Pentax m series film camera, which are lighter and smaller than the Olympus om-1 and other OM cameras.
Love your video and just subscribed. I am a LONG time user of OM. Like 50 years!! I own the OM-1 the OM-4 and many Zuiko lenes. I also shoot Olympus Digital.
I also like Zuiko glass and I have quite the collection now. the 85/2 is great for portraiture and the 40/2 pancake is also a great lens! That 50/1.4 lens works great with my speedboosted Micro 4/3 cameras it makes it a 71/1.0 lens after crop and boosting - I was initially shooting with Micro 4/3, then got a speedbooster for OM and then started to pickup the om lenses to match my Pen/OM-D. This lead me into trying out film and I've been shooting film ever since, which the occasional dip back into digital.
First off, great video. I have been shooting vintage Leitz and OM lenses for a number of years on various bodies and IMO the OM lenses are about 90% of what the Leitz stuff is at about 20% of the cost. It's VERY good glass. Plus the little "Pen" and "35" range of pocketable cameras are really awesome. The 35RD is in my sites as my next Olympus purchase.
I found a banged-up OM-1 for $10 at a pawn shop - it's been working for years despite all, a great little camera! Also picked up a 50mm f1.4 with rim of lens separation at multiple levels, but it still works great. My favorite lens is the 100mm f2.8 (my preferred focal length) and the amazingly light 200mm f4, light enough to easily shoot hand-held. The 36-70mm f3.6 zoom is amazing as well. Thanks for sharing the Zuiko love!
Thanks for watching lovely! Wow what a score $10! I got mine on fb marketplace for $40 which is still great. Glad to hear yours is still working fine as I have heard they are prone to having issues??
I am a HUHGE fan of Olympus and Zuiko!!! My first 35mm SLR was an Olympus OM1 back in the 70s, it still works even though the meter doesn't I just love every lens I have ever used and dig everything from their half frame cameras through their pre-ish and their point and shoots!!!
I’m so pleased I have just found you on CZcams. I have 4 Leica camera’s and a collection of Olympus OM film camera’s too. I can 100% confirm that the Zuiko lenses have a beautiful character and believe this or not I have three variations of the 50mm f1.4 lens. If you haven’t already maybe just step up to the 85mm f2 as it’s qualities are similar to you 50mm f1.8 and I’m sure you will love it ❤ As for Leica I can say that technically and image quality and build is better but you can pay up to twenty times more for a similar experience. It’s an old saying but it is definitely down to the photographer and not the equipment in long cases. Thank you for posting this as it’s been a joy to see a younger generation enjoying these classic cameras 🙏
I had a Leica M3, fully rebuilt by a in Leitz trained tech, for a couple years and never liked it as much as maybe I should have. The thing I HATED about it was loading the darn thing. The way I shoot, having a $1500 piece of vintage jewelry around my neck always made me nervous, that and it's quite heavy considering its size. I had already been shooting 6x6 for a while anyway, so I was used to the quality of the bigger negs. I have a crazy DDR Pentacon 6 which I adore - with a Ukrainian 65 mm and a waist level finder it's not that much heavier than an M3, and the photos are wonderful. What's funny, though, is I have Olympus OM's too, and I traveled with them and love them. It's a little crazy how I never fell in love with the magnificent, expensive M3 but gush over pawn shop OM1's and a Polish eBay Pentacon...
I do love using the pro and non-pro M.Zuiko glass for Olympus cameras that use the MFT mount, and the F.Zuiko 38mm f/1.8 for the Pen-F(T) lineup is a good addition to my lens collection. Amazing image quality and interesting bokeh. Looks great on the digital Pen-F, which looks more like an old Leica than any film-era Pen-F, funny enough.
First, excellent video and beautiful photos (some of my favorites)!!! Second, I started with adapting a Zuiko 50mm 1.8 to my Sony! I’ve since acquired 2 OM bodies & more Zuiko glass. I don’t own any Leica glass, but I absolutely love this system and have been very happy with it.
MOLLY!!! Thank you so much lovely. Lux put in so much effort with this video. I am in love with the pic of Luca 😍😍 glad to hear you are also a Zuiko fan! Thanks for watching
I love the Olympus lenses a lot! My first camera was the Olympus 35 RC, and I really enjoyed the lens on that. My grandparents just wanted to find a camera they could give me that they wouldn't worry about if I lost or broke it. I feel like a lot of the newer Olympus Zuiko lenses have a lot of same feel as a lot of my older ones do. I also shoot digital on Micro 4/3 and I have some of their modern Zuiko lenses, and I really like how those look too
In the initial moments of video you showed an Oly Trip 35 (and again later). I loved using it with Tri-X and still have a black one. Took some great stuff using it on a snowmobile trip in Alaska a few years back. The rendering of a raging snowstorm was awesome, snow falling at 45 degree angle with coastal cliffs fading into the distance and abandoned beached fishing boat in foreground. Grainy and stark. Still have a working XA also! But any camera you have is the 'best one' compared to the one you don't carry with you.
I started getting into photography 2 years ago. Today my mom gave me my grandpas old camera. An OM10 with the 50mm. I cleaned the lens and ordered an adapter and cant wait to try it out
Hi Lucy. You are the Olympus OM-10 girl. Very nice shots by the way. I started with the same combo back in 1979. 1980 followed the OM 2-N and later a used OM-1N. I have still all this Cameras. Olympus OM is known for its small and light designs. Olympus in this department beats all other Companies in the 70s and 80s. Designer Yoshihisa Maitani was a genius. My recommendations: 21mm f3,5 24mm f2.8 28mm f2 35mm f2.8 85mm f2 100mm f2.8 135mm f 2,8 If someone could afford more. This are the expansive and rare power lenses: 18mm f3,5 50mm f2 Makro 90mm f2 Makro 100mm f2
Hello nice to hear from you in the comments! We have struggled to get out and do our old style of photo walks lately. Glad you liked the shots and and yes I agree Olympus hands down is the best!
The original OM1 was actually the M1, and was Olympus’s attempt at making a camera in line with the Leica system. Leica complained about the name, so the OM1 was born. If you put the OM1 and an M3 back to back, they’re practically the same size. The OM1 has advantage of being usable without batteries too, they’re just used for the light meter.
A friend of mine is giving me a broken Olympus Film camera. Hopefully it has one of these lenses. I think it'd be a great one for video. Great video editing also.
Olympus cameras & lenses are very under rated thankfully. I have an OM1 & OM4 with several lenses purchased reasonably because people seem to pass them by. As you have mentioned the size & the quality is amazing. Love them. Another good video. Thanks!
I just really hope they keep flying under the radar and all the hype bois keep using their overpriced Nikon and Canons ;) I’ve been using Zuiko lenses and OM cameras all my life and desperately want to be able to keep affording them!
Thank you Ted! Glad to hear you are also a fan of the OM system. I don’t think they will get to the hype of other cameras though unless a really big CZcamsr does a video on them maybe…
Love the video. I love my Olympus OM-1. One of the reasons I love it so much is the Zuiko lenses. Like others have said, they are so small and light, and can just do everything. So in short, yes, yes they are!!
Great video! I've got an OM-1n and the 28mm f2.8. I didn't love that focal length until I got that lens and it's my favorite now - it's got such a character, even equivalent focal lengths in my digicam don't match it. I also recommend the 50mm f3.5 macro for portraits and closeup photos.
I use my zuiko 50mm f2 macro for *everything*, it’s the perfect walkabout lens! Collectors have slightly ruined things for some of the rarer lenses tho, I’d looove an 85mm / 90mm or 100mm f2 but they’re gold dust 🥲
My son likes his Om10 with the 1.8 50mm lens. I have a Ricoh 50mm f2 lens on a Petri GX1 K mount camera. Ricoh lenses are awesome. I have a 2005 8.1 megapixel Ricoh GR digital camera with a 28mm equivalent f2. 4 lens. Awesome results especially in black and white My favourite camera is my old Pentax Spotmatic with its M42 Super Takumar 55mm 1.8 lens
Nice to see you made a good point about the old pro f1.4 lenses. They were never really made to be shot wide open, but they did make the viewfinder a tad brighter that a 1.8 lens. And trying to get bokeh with a maximum shutter speed on 1000s is only possible on a very overcast day or indoors under low light.
Bahaha love this progression of yours from being totally meh about lenses to stumbling into the ways of the lords of Zuiko! 😁 Olympus, Nikon & Leica are my fave lens brands. Good luck not lighting all your money on fire now 💸 Olympus m43 is my workhorse digital system system. Their lenses are still awesome for the *look* even if the smaller sensor isn't as amazing as larger formats. Since Olympus never made AF film SLRs, and I prefer autofocus, I use Nikon AF-D lenses with optical designs from the 70s-90s for the vintage-ish glass look.
The 50mm f1.4 that came on my OM-1 is still my favorite lens ever, of all time. It’s sharp wide open, the blur is creamy, it swirls a little, and when you stop it down to around f4, the sharpness and lens character is just godly. Not to mention the focusing on my copy is really smooth, I never feel the need I need to get it oiled up. I plan on getting the 200mm f4 since I’m looking for an affordable telephoto option for the camera and that seems pretty damn great, and the 55mm f1.2 for the extreme low light situations AND the extra blur that comes with it for portraits (I’d imagine the 50mm f1.2 is better since it’s newer, but it’s way pricier and among the Zuiko lenses that still has a lot of value, including other rare offerings such as the 35mm f2 which I’d love to get, or the 40mm f2 pancake which would definitely be godtier in terms of a compact SLR system)
Great video. I was looking at the radioactive thorium lens list for my Pentax glass and I remember seeing some of the Olympus 50s and PenF on the radioactive list. Just an FYI as something to consider and check for.
My dad gave me his old OM-10 with a 50mm f1.8. I have really enjoyed shooting with it. I also got recently a 50mm f1.4. I love the lenses! I even started adapting the leases to my Sony a7Riii.
The 50mm 1.4 is awesome adapted to my oly digital cameras... try the trip 35 i think you will like it. I did a video on it and it magically time travelled me back to 1971 😆
Thank you for this nice review! I love the OM line up and think the lenses are as good as Nikon, Canon, and Leica glass, along with many others. The Pen line up is also really nice. All of these different brands of cameras and lenses are capable of creating beautiful images and so many of them are such bargains these days, that one should never think a low budget will prevent a person from taking fantastic photographs.
My Olympus 35RC is one of my favorite cameras. I often go between that and a late 50's Leica M2 with a 35mm Summilux. For those familiar with his work, William Eggleston shot a lot of The Democratic Forest with a 35RC.
my favourite OM Zuiko glass list includes the 28 F3.5, 35 F2 (more of character lens), the 50 F1.8 MC, and the 100 F2.8. The OM Zuiko lenses render both black and colour beautifully and dampened just right for focusing.
Old lenses from all the manufacturers have some special sauce in various lenses. I own/use/love the Pentax MX and ME Super with their small Pentax-M lenses that are really stella in their effects. If you don't already Lux, expand your Pentax cameras into the MX/ME/LX line and the Pentax-M lenses! My wife and I will often go out with her mum (a retired photojournalist amongst other tings) with Nikon Z6 with Pentax K mount adapter and a pair of MX & ME Super bodies with a selection of Pentax -M lenses that we can swap amongst ourselves. I often use the Pentax -M SMC 28mm 3.5 on my digital body for photos in forests due to the amazing way it renders greens. The Rodenstock Heligon 50mm for Kodak Retinas is superb and gives nothing away to my Leica Summicron 50mm f2 collapsible. The reality is that there are so many old lenses out there that really speak to people on another level, and how fortunate are we that we get to use them on film and if you like mounted on digital.
I got an OM-G/OM-20 in high school. I eventually switched to digital, but at one point I acquired a couple Zuiko primes intending to get back into B&W film (never happened). I got my first mirrorless a couple of years ago, and I'm now experimenting with the Zuiko primes on it. Just picked up a 50mm f/1.4. I can't give you a technical or artistic reason, but I like the experience of using the vintage primes on my modern mirrorless. I like the feel of lens as I manually adjust the focus, and it works well with the focus peaking feature of the mirrorless display.
I can’t speak to the old film Zuiko glass but I do have Olympus Micro 4/3rd cameras and the Zuiko glass for those are some the sharpest, clearest best color rendering lenses I own and that includes the lenses for my Hasselblad 500C. My favorite walk around setup is my Olympus PenF digital with the 12-40mm f2.8 lens. I have been looking into either a film PenF or a half frame Olympus. Maybe I need to look a little harder
I started picking up M42 lenses for my mirrorless digi cam. After a while, I came to the realization you can shoot those lenses on all sorts of great film cameras. There are many options, including half-frame cameras, tiny minimalistic cameras, and full-featured cameras. My favorites are Exa 1B which is very small and Zeiss Icarex although Pentax made tons of bodies and the Mamiya 1000DTL is cheap and underappreciated.
Exa 1b fan here! What I like about the M42 lenses is that they have the manual stop down when you adapt them to mirrorless digitals. The OM glass too, but you have to modify the adapter for the Zuikos to do that
I had much the same experience with the Nikon FG-20. Small, light, easy to use, and I got some classic Nikon prime lenses at great bargain prices. The results are amazing.
The main reason besides their image quality is the sheer size of the lenses. They're just so small, I can literally just put them in my trouser pockets. The 85/2 is just the most beautiful portrait lens Also like you said: there just aren't bad lenses (besides some of their zooms). You can get a great range of lenses for a small budget
@@EE12CSVT the bokeh is just so smooth and the lens itself really sharp. Obviously no comparison to the Jupiter-9 (whose swirly effect I still adore nonetheless)
I have the Olympus 0m2n with a couple of lenses. The selling point for me was/is the 'off the film metering' which makes it more accurate. The lightness is also a bonus, especially compared to my Nikon F2AS with a 55mm f1.2 lens which is ridiculously heavy.
I agree with your id as on Olympus. I shot Pentax for a long time. I bought an OM-1 with 50mm 1.8 to try after watching zenography and Oly35 videos. I was convinced. Excellent build quality, compact size and amazing results.
Not an analog shooter any longer. Bought two Voigtlanders (35mm f1.4 & 50mm f1.5) and love their character (on Sony A7). The only two focal lenghts I'd "need", though one day adding a 21mm of any aperture would be nice (landscape/indoors).
Suggest you try lenses on either OM1 or 2. These are more premium bodies and while heavier than the OM10 , which is more plastic construction. I had a 50, 75-150, & 300 ,you certainly noticed that on the camera but all gave me amazing results. Enjoy this amazing camera and lenses.
Welcome to the Zuiko world 🥰 Of course the premium Leica lenses are better. But Zuiko lenses are not far behind quality wise yet so much more affordable. For many people I would reckon they are more then good enough 🥰 If you look at say vintage Zeiss lenses… their aesthetics vary greatly from focal length to focal length. The Zuikos however share the same lovely and handsome design across the range. They tend to also be physically small. The other characters of many of these Zuikos is that in addition to the colors you spoke off… they give lovely soft creamy backgrounds when they are out of focus. When they have been relubricated… they are truly a delight to focus as they require very little effort and feel super smooth. Another value for money Zuiko would be the 135mm f3.5 🥰 Perhaps a bit heavy in comparison to what you are using… but for a portrait session… I think you will love the colors and the soft out of focus background character … 🥰🥰🥰 It’s great that you love your photography. You’re a winner!!!
Nice video! I sort of happened onto Olympus somehow, and got hooked on its aesthetic, size, and ease of use. I find the on/off lever a bit flimsy, though it hasn't failed me on both my OM2n and OM2sp. The Leica comparison is apt, since the size of the bodies and lenses are very similar to Olympus. I have an M2, which doesn't have a light meter, which I find frustrating. I recently took both the OM2sp and the M2 to a street costume party, and shot a roll on each. Metering externally on the Leica slowed me down, but on the other hand focusing with a rangefinder is much easier than the ground glass/split circle on an SLR. So I recently acquired and M5, which is the cheapest Leica that does have a lightmeter, and I"m curious to see how that will pan out, but I haven't used it yet. I also inherited a Nikon F2, which is big, bulky and cumbersome. I take it out for a spin once in a while, but it's not the one I reach for naturally. To summarize: My best landscape shots, relying on resolving power, sharpness and color were taken with the Leica, but that might be simply because that was what I had at hand. So for me, the jury is still out, but the addiction is still going strong 🙂.
I kind of have a similar affection but for Pentax lenses, especially the early Pentax primes like the Takumar's. I've only heard good things about the Zuiko glass and I honestly don't see the Leica glass being much or any better than Pentax or Zuiko glass, especially for the price. Also Pentax did make the Pentax MX and ME series of cameras that are comparable in size to the OM's in case anyone is looking for a compact camera and they have k mount/m42 lenses.
My GOAT lens is the Zuiko 24 f2; took my best shots, have no ideas of its "specs" but the results, it just worked for me . Olympus was one of the few camera companies made all their lens good even the lower priced ones. They also were more contrast orientated like German lens then the other Japanese brands which were more color orientated at the time. In my use OM1n and OM2n were at least as reliable as the Nikon F cameras. The OM10 and OM20 were not, but they did work well. Auto winders were hard on all cameras other then the Nikon F, so when buying a camera try to buy one that was not used with an auto-winder. The OMs double digit ones were made to a lower standard; but the PC and its two digit mate were made tough as they were based on the OM4, they currently sell at bargain prices in my opinion, you may have to peal the rubber coating off (if it deteriorated) and replace it with something but the parts are available and you could get your favorite color, There were some other later two digit ones but I have no experience in them some are good to get and some not. Best Olympus point and shoot was the Olympus 35 SP. It was Ansel Adams last camera, if for no other reason. It had a great piece of glass, wish I had one. That Nikon looks light compared to a Voigtlander or Zeiss SLR of the 60s! I used Leica lens before I went to Olympus they were nice but not as good as the Voigtlander ones maybe a bit better then the Olympus ones but it was a range finder not an SLR and you could never get framing right when you got in close. I understood in the 70s and 80s that the Rolly lens were the best, never had any but was very impressed by photos I saw taken with them. The OM1 and OM2 had the best viewfinders covered 98 percent of the frame (perfect for slides) if memory serves and were exceptionally bright. The 10 and 20 were bright also, not sure about coverage; all the others were not as good even the 2s, 3 and 4. I mostly shoot slides so no post cropping etc. A lot were technical for product or presentations so framing was critical. IMHO the OM2n was the best camera to take slides with, due to its flat metering and viewfinder. I still have my original one and some glass. I think I need to clean it up and get some more glass for it.
What a terrific video! Although my favorite standard lens is a Topcor 5.8cm f1.4, I do prefer the Zuiko *range* of lenses, especially my current favorite - the 35-70mm f3.6 zoom. It could very well be the best zoom lens for 35mm of this era. I have an OM4 and it's a delight to use. I love the Topcon RE Super that the Topcor lens is for. It's a remarkable system, very well-built but HEAVY! The OM system is a delight - light-weight and agile! Thank you for posting this!
I had the OM1n with that 50mm lens back in the 1980s. You'll see how incredibly sharp it is if you use a tripod and strong fill-flash on a subject. Otherwise the camera had a fair bit of shuttershock and so the images lacked anything like that bite in ambient light. Olympus kit looked so pretty.
The whole of the Olympus line up of lenses (old and new) are fantastic, from the fisheyes to the 1000mm. Even the Olympus Trip 35 is much love and sought after by Analogue uses (old and new) ... Check out Analog Insights on CZcams. The M43 range (lumix, olympus .. + 3rd party) meike, 7 Artisans, TT Artisans) is as compact as the Olympus. You'd love the digital Pen F ....
Enjoyed your video on olympus glass lucy...started to realize while watching it some of the scenes looked familiar then realaized your on the goldcoast like me lol.
Nice advert. I've always used Olympus gear - OM1 and an OM2n. I repaired cameras for 25 years, so mine is still in great working order as I service them every few years.
You are correct in your statement that Zuiko lenses are a match for anything else out there. All their primes are excellent, however for some reason many people are dismissive when it comes to their zoom lenses from the same period. This is a real shame, as they are outstanding value these days. My favourite is a 35-70 f3.5-4.5. This has all the characteristics of a Zuiko prime, especially size and build quality. While it's only average wide open, ( but actually far from awful ) stop it down to f8 and above and you'll be delighted. The f4 version of this lens is more common, but in either case they can be bought for between £30-50 in decent usable condition in the UK, and I'm sure in NZ as well. Unless you're bokeh obsessed, there's great Zuiko bargains to be had as zooms.
Thanks for watching! Yes you are so right and I love that you are defending zoom lenses because I love most zoom lenses and use Nikon zooms all the time on my F65 and F80. People give them a bad wrap but like you say if you shoot f8 and above it’s perfect! I don’t really care about bokeh unless it is genuinely adding to the image not just bokeh for the sake of bokeh. I feel we are on the same page 🙋🏻♀️👍🏻💯📸🎞
Thank you miss Molly! Lux put lots of effort into the edit and b roll for this one and I spent more time planning as it doubled as an article for fstoppers as well so I paraphrased from that. Need to catch up on your vids we have had no time lately and we watch in the TV so I don’t always get to comment!
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They hated Jesus for speaking the truth!
I am very biased but I agree with you. You just can’t beat the Zuiko lenses, especially when you factor in the price. The first camera I ever repaired was my Olympus XA2 and I only fixed it because prices were getting insane and I just couldn’t part with it. The XA2 is my go-to P&S and i’ working on fixing up an XA.
A kind stranger just sold me an OM-1 for $1 because they didn’t want to contribute to the insane price hikes going with film cameras and I feel so blessed. I could go on about Olympus cameras all day. 😂 My love for film grew 10X using Olympus cameras. Olympus cameras are well made, pretty compact, and, also very stylish in my opinion. Craftsmanship is excellent and they’re such a wide variety of OM lenses to choose from but even your standard 50mm f1.8 is is great! Ignore the haters, it’s just preference at the end of the day 😂 let them stay mad lol
OM are simply goat indeed. Try Takumars for a different and japan-premium experience as well, the M42 screw mounts ones.
Interesting to see someone still doing this.
From 1980 to 2008 I was a photographer in the USAF. For me anyway, we used Nikons because: that is what was issued to us; they take a beating; you can put a lot of film through them without mechanical failure. For me, they always worked. Even then, you had two camera bodies on you so if one did fail, you could still do an assignment.
With that said, I have used the Olympus OM-1n, 24mm, 50mm, 135mm, 200mm extensively. They were a heck of a lot lighter. THAT counts for a lot as if you are shooting often, you get fatigued. 2x OMs around the neck and if doing close in work, one was with a 50mm the other a 24mm. Usually photographing a lot of uncontrolled events.
The ergonomics of the OM-1 (I have not shot the OM-10 so I can't speak on that), make it much more useful than a lot of other cameras.
You are on to something with the lenses, at least the ones I have used. I thought the images (for me Kodachrome and Ektachrome) are of really good contrast.
And as for reliability. I did not have one fail on me, which for me negates the alleged advantage of the Nikon since you can buy a lot more Olympus equipment for the dollar. And if you do damage an OM-1 or whatever, it is cheap to replace.
I still have an OM-1 and a 50mm on the shelf. I only shoot digital now, so whatever.
Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work.
Hello 👋🏻 thank you for watching and sharing your stories and experiences with cameras. I find people like yourself who shot film when that’s all there was really interesting to hear from.
I have had no issues with my Olympus cameras either despite what I’ve heard from people about them failing. I do like Nikon and own many Nikon cameras but my OM10 is just what I find myself always reaching for.
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻🙋🏻♀️📸
I bought my OM-2 in 1993 and was more than impressed by Zuiko lenses. Yoshihisa Maitani said the lens is the soul of the camera and while he was at Olympus he made sure the lenses produced the most beautiful immages.
I have an Olympus Om-1 with the 50mm 1.8 lens and I love it. ZUIKO lenses are definitely special, and I can't wait to try more of their ZUIKO lens line up.
Thanks for watching Alex! They are so so special 😍
The Olympus OM-1 the 50mm f1.8 was my first serious camera - bought back in the 70s from one of the big discount camera shops in Shinjuku when I was studying in Tokyo. I chose it over the Nikon FM because it just felt better in my hand. I loved that kit even with a buggy light meter for it's size that let me carry it everywhere. It was stolen in the 80s and a friend gave me a Canon to replace it, but I still miss that first OM1.
I recently picked up an Olympus M-1 body with M-System Auto-S 50mm f1.8 lens. As readers may be aware, the ‘O’ was added following a complaint by Leica about the use of M-1. I find the history of cameras fascinating.
I started shooting with an Olympus OM-1 in 1978. It was the third camera I'd tried. I'm still shooting on OM-1 (and OM-2) today. It was their compactness, design and lenses that got me hooked. My two go-to lenses were 24mm f/2.8 and the 50mm f/1.8, and still are, even though I now have a full range of Zuiko glass up to a 190mm f/2.8. I travelled all over Australia and Asia with them. Those lenses and Kodachrome produced fantastic images. When I went digital, I stuck with Olympus for a while because of the Zuiko glass, but then had a 10 year affair with Canon, but I saw the error of my ways and have gone back to Olympus for digital, and the Zuiko lenses are still as stunning as ever, and even sharper. Even though the Olympus camera division no longer exists, the legacy of Maitani lives on.
Great video. I agree about the quality of Zuiko lenses. My dad was a professional photographer, a photojournalist, and a photography professor. When he passed away, I inherited his gear: Olympus OM2S & a plethora of amazing glass. I’ve been shooting with it since 1992 when I took my first darkroom class and started working at a camera store. I’ve seen many types of cameras, lenses, & gear over the years but I am still as in love with my Olympus gear as I was 30 years ago. I bought Nikon film & later digital gear to get auto focus, etc. I got an amazing deal because of where I worked. I have a collection of gear after working in the industry for 19 years, but my Olympus is definitely my fave gear. I witnessed the very beginning of digital photography and later saw film cameras practically being thrown away. People literally donated large amounts of cameras and lenses to my store because they didn’t know what to do with it. It makes me happy to watch your videos. I thought the world killed film and I’m glad that it isn’t dead. Thanks for sharing your content. -Merry in Virginia, US
Got a notification from fstoppers for this video link. So happy to finally see people acknowledge the quality of zuiko glass which IMO is so under rated. I love my Zuiko 50mm f1.8, Zuiko 135mm f3.5, Zuiko 135mm f2.8 and finally the Zuiko 200mm f4. Super sharp lenses with amazing contrast and character.
I have the very rare and sought-after Zuiko 35mm f/2 and along with my 28mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.8 are my three very favourite lenses, along with my beautiful all-black OM-2n body. I’ve shot OM’s all my life and will never shoot anything else
The 28mm f2.8 is second to none! I’ve been using it on my OM-4 and I’m obsessed. It’s so small and perfect for street photography. Will be testing it on my OM-1 soon.
vouch for the 28mm!! i like it for video too, adapted to my sony. i have a 50 1.4 but unfortunately have a good amount of fungus :/. i rarely shoot 50 but a part of me still yearns for a clean copy
@@davidb_ Just get a 1.8! They’re ten-a-penny on eBay and really the difference between it and the 1.4 is pretty minimal
@@tompoynton true! i was wondering if there wasn’t too much of a difference. thanks!
Lucky! I’d die to have that 35mm f2, I know it would be the perfect all rounder lens I could wanna get for the OM system
Hi Lucy, this is the first time the algorithm has been kind enough to introduce me to your channel. Thanks for sharing your experience with Olympus gear. I've had an Olympus M1 for over 50 years. My grandad, who was an avid photographer, gave it to me for my 7th birthday after he picked it up during a business trip to Japan. Dad was furious with him for such a lavish gift, but he got over it. The OM series is what the M series became after Leica objected to Olympus' use of the 'M' moniker. I use only an early M-System Zuiko 50mm F1.4 lens, which interestingly is radioactive due to the use of thorium in the glass. I love the combination and have taken it all over the world with me, and it's never let me down.
I recently learnt about this, that my Zuiko lens has thorium in the glass. I too love my OM-1's image quality ❤
Indeed a leica competetor.
Ho iniziato a fotografare nel 1985 con una Olympus Om4 e lo Zuiko 50mm f/3,5 macro.
Nel tempo ho acquistato il 18mm, il 24mm f:2, il 35mm f:2, il 55mm f:1,2, il 90 mm f:2 macro ed il 180mm f:2,8 con il moltiplicatore 1,4x.
Nel reportage (matrimoni, teatro... ) ero a mio agio e per la compattezza del sistema ed anche la discrezione duranto lo scatto, poco rumoroso.
Nel tempo ho acquistato la Om4ti e Om3 per avere (come con la 0m4) una precisione nellla esposizione con le diapositive insuperabile grazie alla misurazione multi spot.
Con il digitale sono rimasto in casa Olympus nel sistema 4/3 e poi micro 4/3.
Ancora oggi uso una reflex E-5 Oly professionale (l'ultima della serie) anche con i vecchi Zuiko Om che ho conservato, mentre altri li ho venduti.
Infine con la Panasonic G9 e l'adattatore Metabones 0,64x... di fatto quasi ripristino angolo e profondità di campo delle ottiche Zuiko Om sul micro 4/3.
Ad esempio lo Zuiko 55mm diventa un 35mm f:0,8 !!!!
Posso fotografare con pochissima luce ambiente. ;)
la pellicola non la uso dal 2004... e va bene così: la vita è bellissima.
Nice to see that you are testing the camera that I bought in 1982 and it was my first camera. I only got to know how good this cameras was , as I was progressing in my photography and getting to the point where I went from Nikon over canon eos to Leica. Now you won’t believe it, I still have those zuiko lenses and I use them on my Leica too. So cheers from Germany and happy shooting 😊
Another masterpiece from Lucy and Lux! Beautiful music and editing! Stunning images also 👍. I have a tiny Zuiko on my Original Olympus Pen and it’s amazing! I also just got my Canon Prima Mini from Cameron delivered yesterday, just forgot the battery, so psyched to put a roll in it!
Thanks for another beautiful video! ❤️
Back in the mid 1980s, I got an Olympus OMG from a pawn shop in Fullerton California. It is by far my favorite camera and the Zuiko lenses that I got for it have never failed to provide quality photographs.
I always loved the Olympus gear. When I worked at a camera store in the 2000s, I was able to play with all the great used gear side by side, and the OM series were always some of my favorites. Great vid, Lucy!
Hey Pete! Thanks for watching buddy glad you enjoyed. Oh yeah they are just the best and I am always reaching for my OM10 as it suits my style and needs so well. Simple and light to carry around 🙋🏻♀️👍🏻
The Olympus OM 4Ti and the 50mm 1.2 were my first film camera setup and it is still one of my favorite combo that I have.
The 50mm f/1.2 is legendary. Perhaps my favourite lens - wide open it has a magic (thanks in part to its spherical aberration) and then from f/2 upwards it's bitingly sharp. All that in package about the same size as 50 1.8s from other manufacturers.
I recently got an old Olympus om2 from my grandfather and it came with several Zuiko lenses and now i cant wait to test them all out
Amazing : you reminded me why I switched to MFT all those years ago and I’m not tempted away .
I have a great portrait lens which I don’t use very much and a great walk about option glued to the body . The kit zoom is good , but gets little use these days . For wide angle shots then my phone covers that pretty well . In fact, I have come to rely more on my phone because it is with most of the time , but the camera is another experience entirely and one I get most pleasure from.
my very first film camera was an olympus OM-10 from my grandfather, I absolutely loved it! I then got an OM-1 several years later that I still use, my mom and I think Zuiko glass is totally the best! Great reveiw as always :)
I used to shoot with an OM30 and some of their lenses. Sadly I no longer still have the kit. I sold it off when I went digital in the early 2000's, but I kept my Canon EOS30 camera that I bought to replace the OM30.
The OM30 required a lot of LR44 batteries! (five of them!) The shutter used magnets to control the speed of the shutter, I had them changed on mine after about 5 years. The OM30 was compact and lightweight.
Thanks for the video, spoiled today with one from you and OMTC!
I got my first OM10 in 1991 and I've still got it upstairs with a spare, and two Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 lenses, among others. I've not used it since going digital, but I need to put Ektachrome back through it, and possibly Ektar. The images were quite wonderful.
Just can't beat Olympus with a Zuiko lens, I look forward to watching more of your Olympus experience. I'm currently shooting with an old OM2 and a 28mm Zuiko lens which I mainly use here in Glasgow, just got a roll back today and was amazed by the pictures. So yes Olympus with Zuiko all the way.
Thank you for watching and sharing your love for the OM system as well. I can’t wait to shoot more with all of mine
New subscriber to your channel. Love the content! Especially this vlog because the Olympus 35mm slr's are near and dear to me. The OM-2N was my first camera and it gifted to me by my late father who introduced me to photography when I was 17 yrs. Almost 40 years later, my OM-1 and OM-2 are still my fav film cameras. There is just something about the character of zuiko glass that you can't replicate with any other film camera imo. Cheers!
The OM1n is still one of my favourite 35mm film cameras, and yes, I have more than one. The prime glass is excellent and I feel much overlooked. I would give the zoom lenss a bit of a body swerve though, but then all zoom glass from that time was not as good as the modern equivalent, but the Zuiko primes, even the slower glass just can't be beaten.
As someone who has Leica R and M glass (on film and digital), as well as a long-time (my first camera in HS) OM user, I can tell you that Zuiko glass can hold its own against Leica glass optically and artistically. It has its own character, but so does a Summicron. Now, my modern Leica M glass is technically better at CA, distortion, etc. but I like the rendering of my Zuiko 50mm f/1.4 better than my Summicron or the Summilux.
If you shoot film, it's pretty simple...if you LOVE a rangefinder and like to be light and have superb quality, shoot Leica glass (or a properly calibrated TT Artisan) and either a Konica Hexar RF, Bessa or Leica...and spend the $$ on it.
If you like an SLR or don't care, the Olympus OM system and glass will hold its own against the Leica...no, the level of fit and finish and dampening etc. isn't quite there on the Olympus, and dang that shutter slap, but My OM4 and Zuiko glass holds it's own against my Leica R5...the R5 is just a bit more "refined".
Zuiko glass can't be beat on the SLR side for size, style (sorry Pentax you ugly), weight, ergonomics and quality. The only downside is that with age, the OM bodies aren't as reliable as others IMO. I'm on my 4th OM4...ugh. The hidden gem might be the OM-G (OM-20)...they have been rock solid for me and don't eat batteries...and they have a very nice add on grip.
And look for a "made in japan" (lowercase) 50mm f/1.8...it will knock your socks off at 1.8 even compared to the f/1.4.
It’s a sunny 70°F/21°C day here in Florida. This literal calm before the storm (Hurricane Ian is on its way). Im you’ve inspired me to take a break this afternoon and take out my OM-10 for a photowalk to enjoy the weather. In honor of your fav glass I’ll use the 50mm 1.8.
I use zuiko 50mm 1.8 for long time. I got interested in 1.4 from this video. Thanks for sharing your love of zuiko. One more thing I love about olympus is the sound of shutter.
It's good to see, that you found a lens type and brand, that matter to you 🙂
You really did nail so many shots with those Zuiko 50mm lenses.
Having no experience with Zuiko lenses myself, I can't say if you're right or not. But, considering how many great lenses from many different brands I have myself, in my opinion it is entirely a matter of personal preference.
I'm partial to Voigtländer myself. I also have this vintage 90mm Leica M-mount lens, that has build quality second to none in my opinion. But, I also get great results with my Nikon (AF), Canon (FD and EF), Minolta, Konica, Sigma, Sony, Fujica and Pentax glass.
I have more f/1.4 (45-55mm) lenses, than I care to admit, because they just work for me.
I will say, that many lens makers produce high precession lenses for things like scientific purposes - not only Olympus.
Very cool tee btw.
I watched this as I was searching for videos on Zuiko lenses, my first ever camera was the Olympus OM10 (nice to see you have the manual adaptor!) with Zuiko 50mm, I currently shoot with a Fuji X-T2 and want to try some vintage glass and figured the Zuiko would be perfect, before even typing this reply I've already ordered one and a mount adaptor, hearing you talk so lovingly about my first ever set up made me so nostalgic... that I can see me also getting an OM10 body in the next few days too!
so refreshing to see you…no only u are sharing time and bonding but you are the best teacher for her future..👏🏼❤️🔥🌷
Oh thank you lovely!!! Great to hear
I felt the same magic when I met that lens! I liked it so much that I got an adapter to bring it to my digital cam.
Love your videos, but I've never commented before
Hey Alex, thanks for watching and commenting. Glad you feel the same about these lenses 👍🏻🙋🏻♀️
Glass is everything Lucy, I have a Nikon 14x24 every time I zoom it out to look at its beauty I’m amazed , looks live a fine jewel!
Love Zuiko lenses and Oly cameras. Pentax and Minolta also render nicely… not as consistently as Zuiko. I’d put their primes on par with any Leica… crazy but true.
If you want a lightweight camera get your self a Pentax ME or any of the Pentax m series film camera, which are lighter and smaller than the Olympus om-1 and other OM cameras.
Love your video and just subscribed. I am a LONG time user of OM. Like 50 years!! I own the OM-1 the OM-4 and many Zuiko lenes. I also shoot Olympus Digital.
I also like Zuiko glass and I have quite the collection now. the 85/2 is great for portraiture and the 40/2 pancake is also a great lens! That 50/1.4 lens works great with my speedboosted Micro 4/3 cameras it makes it a 71/1.0 lens after crop and boosting - I was initially shooting with Micro 4/3, then got a speedbooster for OM and then started to pickup the om lenses to match my Pen/OM-D. This lead me into trying out film and I've been shooting film ever since, which the occasional dip back into digital.
First off, great video. I have been shooting vintage Leitz and OM lenses for a number of years on various bodies and IMO the OM lenses are about 90% of what the Leitz stuff is at about 20% of the cost. It's VERY good glass. Plus the little "Pen" and "35" range of pocketable cameras are really awesome. The 35RD is in my sites as my next Olympus purchase.
I found a banged-up OM-1 for $10 at a pawn shop - it's been working for years despite all, a great little camera! Also picked up a 50mm f1.4 with rim of lens separation at multiple levels, but it still works great. My favorite lens is the 100mm f2.8 (my preferred focal length) and the amazingly light 200mm f4, light enough to easily shoot hand-held. The 36-70mm f3.6 zoom is amazing as well. Thanks for sharing the Zuiko love!
Thanks for watching lovely! Wow what a score $10! I got mine on fb marketplace for $40 which is still great. Glad to hear yours is still working fine as I have heard they are prone to having issues??
@@LucyLumen Can't complain about this one, and it's had a hard, hard life. The OM-2 is another story, it's much more prone to problems.
+1 on the 100mm 2.8. It is the favorite inmy Zuiko collection
I am a HUHGE fan of Olympus and Zuiko!!! My first 35mm SLR was an Olympus OM1 back in the 70s, it still works even though the meter doesn't I just love every lens I have ever used and dig everything from their half frame cameras through their pre-ish and their point and shoots!!!
I’m so pleased I have just found you on CZcams. I have 4 Leica camera’s and a collection of Olympus OM film camera’s too. I can 100% confirm that the Zuiko lenses have a beautiful character and believe this or not I have three variations of the 50mm f1.4 lens. If you haven’t already maybe just step up to the 85mm f2 as it’s qualities are similar to you 50mm f1.8 and I’m sure you will love it ❤
As for Leica I can say that technically and image quality and build is better but you can pay up to twenty times more for a similar experience. It’s an old saying but it is definitely down to the photographer and not the equipment in long cases.
Thank you for posting this as it’s been a joy to see a younger generation enjoying these classic cameras 🙏
I had a Leica M3, fully rebuilt by a in Leitz trained tech, for a couple years and never liked it as much as maybe I should have. The thing I HATED about it was loading the darn thing. The way I shoot, having a $1500 piece of vintage jewelry around my neck always made me nervous, that and it's quite heavy considering its size. I had already been shooting 6x6 for a while anyway, so I was used to the quality of the bigger negs. I have a crazy DDR Pentacon 6 which I adore - with a Ukrainian 65 mm and a waist level finder it's not that much heavier than an M3, and the photos are wonderful. What's funny, though, is I have Olympus OM's too, and I traveled with them and love them. It's a little crazy how I never fell in love with the magnificent, expensive M3 but gush over pawn shop OM1's and a Polish eBay Pentacon...
I do love using the pro and non-pro M.Zuiko glass for Olympus cameras that use the MFT mount, and the F.Zuiko 38mm f/1.8 for the Pen-F(T) lineup is a good addition to my lens collection. Amazing image quality and interesting bokeh. Looks great on the digital Pen-F, which looks more like an old Leica than any film-era Pen-F, funny enough.
First, excellent video and beautiful photos (some of my favorites)!!! Second, I started with adapting a Zuiko 50mm 1.8 to my Sony! I’ve since acquired 2 OM bodies & more Zuiko glass. I don’t own any Leica glass, but I absolutely love this system and have been very happy with it.
MOLLY!!! Thank you so much lovely. Lux put in so much effort with this video. I am in love with the pic of Luca 😍😍 glad to hear you are also a Zuiko fan! Thanks for watching
I love the Olympus lenses a lot! My first camera was the Olympus 35 RC, and I really enjoyed the lens on that. My grandparents just wanted to find a camera they could give me that they wouldn't worry about if I lost or broke it. I feel like a lot of the newer Olympus Zuiko lenses have a lot of same feel as a lot of my older ones do. I also shoot digital on Micro 4/3 and I have some of their modern Zuiko lenses, and I really like how those look too
I love my 35RC. One of my favorite cameras.
In the initial moments of video you showed an Oly Trip 35 (and again later). I loved using it with Tri-X and still have a black one. Took some great stuff using it on a snowmobile trip in Alaska a few years back. The rendering of a raging snowstorm was awesome, snow falling at 45 degree angle with coastal cliffs fading into the distance and abandoned beached fishing boat in foreground. Grainy and stark. Still have a working XA also! But any camera you have is the 'best one' compared to the one you don't carry with you.
I started getting into photography 2 years ago. Today my mom gave me my grandpas old camera. An OM10 with the 50mm. I cleaned the lens and ordered an adapter and cant wait to try it out
Hi Lucy. You are the Olympus OM-10 girl. Very nice shots by the way. I started with the same combo back in 1979. 1980 followed the OM 2-N and later a used OM-1N. I have still all this Cameras.
Olympus OM is known for its small and light designs. Olympus in this department beats all other Companies in the 70s and 80s. Designer Yoshihisa Maitani was a genius.
My recommendations:
21mm f3,5
24mm f2.8
28mm f2
35mm f2.8
85mm f2
100mm f2.8
135mm f 2,8
If someone could afford more.
This are the expansive and rare power lenses:
18mm f3,5
50mm f2 Makro
90mm f2 Makro
100mm f2
Hello nice to hear from you in the comments! We have struggled to get out and do our old style of photo walks lately. Glad you liked the shots and and yes I agree Olympus hands down is the best!
Nice video. Zuiko in Japanese means fresh light. Looking forward to seeing more videos with your OM-10!
Thank you! Thank you for sharing I didn’t know that’s what it meant, so interesting!
The original OM1 was actually the M1, and was Olympus’s attempt at making a camera in line with the Leica system. Leica complained about the name, so the OM1 was born. If you put the OM1 and an M3 back to back, they’re practically the same size. The OM1 has advantage of being usable without batteries too, they’re just used for the light meter.
Way lighter than the M3 too and easier to load. I sold my M3 because I just never liked it that much...
A friend of mine is giving me a broken Olympus Film camera. Hopefully it has one of these lenses. I think it'd be a great one for video. Great video editing also.
Yes!! I love my Trip 35. That 40mm lens is insanely sharp . . . when I can actually nail focus.
Olympus cameras & lenses are very under rated thankfully. I have an OM1 & OM4 with several lenses purchased reasonably because people seem to pass them by. As you have mentioned the size & the quality is amazing. Love them. Another good video. Thanks!
I just really hope they keep flying under the radar and all the hype bois keep using their overpriced Nikon and Canons ;) I’ve been using Zuiko lenses and OM cameras all my life and desperately want to be able to keep affording them!
Thank you Ted! Glad to hear you are also a fan of the OM system. I don’t think they will get to the hype of other cameras though unless a really big CZcamsr does a video on them maybe…
Such a great video. Love these lenses and your enthusiasm for them😊
Thank you so much lovely. X
Love the video. I love my Olympus OM-1. One of the reasons I love it so much is the Zuiko lenses. Like others have said, they are so small and light, and can just do everything. So in short, yes, yes they are!!
Yes to everything here! Huge zuiko fan and loved the edit and opening to this review!!
Great video! I've got an OM-1n and the 28mm f2.8. I didn't love that focal length until I got that lens and it's my favorite now - it's got such a character, even equivalent focal lengths in my digicam don't match it. I also recommend the 50mm f3.5 macro for portraits and closeup photos.
Thank you lovely! I’ll look out for the macro one. 🙋🏻♀️👍🏻
I use my zuiko 50mm f2 macro for *everything*, it’s the perfect walkabout lens! Collectors have slightly ruined things for some of the rarer lenses tho, I’d looove an 85mm / 90mm or 100mm f2 but they’re gold dust 🥲
My son likes his Om10 with the 1.8 50mm lens.
I have a Ricoh 50mm f2 lens on a Petri GX1 K mount camera.
Ricoh lenses are awesome.
I have a 2005 8.1 megapixel Ricoh GR digital camera with a 28mm equivalent f2. 4 lens. Awesome results especially in black and white
My favourite camera is my old Pentax Spotmatic with its M42 Super Takumar 55mm 1.8 lens
Nice to see you made a good point about the old pro f1.4 lenses. They were never really made to be shot wide open, but they did make the viewfinder a tad brighter that a 1.8 lens. And trying to get bokeh with a maximum shutter speed on 1000s is only possible on a very overcast day or indoors under low light.
or with an nd filter
My om4 with 50mm f1.4 or the 35-70 f3.6 is all I need. Full frame at apsc sizes!
Watching this at 2:44am…thinking if I should get up and check if I have a Zuiko lens 😂. Btw, keep up the good work!
Haha I know how you feel being in a CZcams hole at that time of the morning! I hope you do have a zuiko in your collection thanks for watching
Bahaha love this progression of yours from being totally meh about lenses to stumbling into the ways of the lords of Zuiko! 😁 Olympus, Nikon & Leica are my fave lens brands. Good luck not lighting all your money on fire now 💸
Olympus m43 is my workhorse digital system system. Their lenses are still awesome for the *look* even if the smaller sensor isn't as amazing as larger formats.
Since Olympus never made AF film SLRs, and I prefer autofocus, I use Nikon AF-D lenses with optical designs from the 70s-90s for the vintage-ish glass look.
There are so many comments on this video among me want new/more gear haha 😂 we are all such a bad influence on each other! Thanks for watching lovely
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Glad to hear the why behind the choice. Also been enjoying the podcast! Have a good rest of your night.
Javier thank you so much! I’m glad to hear you are enjoying the pod. You have a great night too.
Subscribed. Great content. I have a big collection of Olympus Zuiko lenses. I love the character of the Olympus lenses which I use on my GH5s
The 50mm f1.4 that came on my OM-1 is still my favorite lens ever, of all time. It’s sharp wide open, the blur is creamy, it swirls a little, and when you stop it down to around f4, the sharpness and lens character is just godly. Not to mention the focusing on my copy is really smooth, I never feel the need I need to get it oiled up. I plan on getting the 200mm f4 since I’m looking for an affordable telephoto option for the camera and that seems pretty damn great, and the 55mm f1.2 for the extreme low light situations AND the extra blur that comes with it for portraits (I’d imagine the 50mm f1.2 is better since it’s newer, but it’s way pricier and among the Zuiko lenses that still has a lot of value, including other rare offerings such as the 35mm f2 which I’d love to get, or the 40mm f2 pancake which would definitely be godtier in terms of a compact SLR system)
Great video. I was looking at the radioactive thorium lens list for my Pentax glass and I remember seeing some of the Olympus 50s and PenF on the radioactive list. Just an FYI as something to consider and check for.
My dad gave me his old OM-10 with a 50mm f1.8. I have really enjoyed shooting with it. I also got recently a 50mm f1.4. I love the lenses! I even started adapting the leases to my Sony a7Riii.
The 50mm 1.4 is awesome adapted to my oly digital cameras... try the trip 35 i think you will like it. I did a video on it and it magically time travelled me back to 1971 😆
Awesome I will have to check it out! Thanks for watching my video
Thank you for this nice review! I love the OM line up and think the lenses are as good as Nikon, Canon, and Leica glass, along with many others. The Pen line up is also really nice. All of these different brands of cameras and lenses are capable of creating beautiful images and so many of them are such bargains these days, that one should never think a low budget will prevent a person from taking fantastic photographs.
My Olympus 35RC is one of my favorite cameras. I often go between that and a late 50's Leica M2 with a 35mm Summilux. For those familiar with his work, William Eggleston shot a lot of The Democratic Forest with a 35RC.
Such a great little camera, I’ve neglected mine for far too long, this comment has made me want to get mine out again!
Oh wow I didn’t know that about eggleston! He is one of my favs so now I want one haha 😂 thanks for watching 🙏🏻
the 35RC ..unasuming looks, but still packs a serious punch. I'm the lucky custodian of 2 copies that get regular use 🙂
my favourite OM Zuiko glass list includes the 28 F3.5, 35 F2 (more of character lens), the 50 F1.8 MC, and the 100 F2.8. The OM Zuiko lenses render both black and colour beautifully and dampened just right for focusing.
Olympus Zuiko glass is lowkey GOAT👀 Loved this video Lucy! Especially liked the impressive performance of the half frame glass!💯👌🏽
Thank you legend!!! I appreciate it and yes they are low key the GOAT!
I love my OM1 and Zuiko glass so much that I literally got it tattooed on my arm. So, in my opinion, yes!
Haha awesome!
For portraits, they have an amazing 100mm lens. I also have a 50mm f/1.2 which I use constantly and an older 55mm f/1.2 "radioactive" lens.
Old lenses from all the manufacturers have some special sauce in various lenses. I own/use/love the Pentax MX and ME Super with their small Pentax-M lenses that are really stella in their effects. If you don't already Lux, expand your Pentax cameras into the MX/ME/LX line and the Pentax-M lenses! My wife and I will often go out with her mum (a retired photojournalist amongst other tings) with Nikon Z6 with Pentax K mount adapter and a pair of MX & ME Super bodies with a selection of Pentax -M lenses that we can swap amongst ourselves. I often use the Pentax -M SMC 28mm 3.5 on my digital body for photos in forests due to the amazing way it renders greens. The Rodenstock Heligon 50mm for Kodak Retinas is superb and gives nothing away to my Leica Summicron 50mm f2 collapsible. The reality is that there are so many old lenses out there that really speak to people on another level, and how fortunate are we that we get to use them on film and if you like mounted on digital.
I got an OM-G/OM-20 in high school. I eventually switched to digital, but at one point I acquired a couple Zuiko primes intending to get back into B&W film (never happened). I got my first mirrorless a couple of years ago, and I'm now experimenting with the Zuiko primes on it. Just picked up a 50mm f/1.4. I can't give you a technical or artistic reason, but I like the experience of using the vintage primes on my modern mirrorless. I like the feel of lens as I manually adjust the focus, and it works well with the focus peaking feature of the mirrorless display.
I can’t speak to the old film Zuiko glass but I do have Olympus Micro 4/3rd cameras and the Zuiko glass for those are some the sharpest, clearest best color rendering lenses I own and that includes the lenses for my Hasselblad 500C. My favorite walk around setup is my Olympus PenF digital with the 12-40mm f2.8 lens. I have been looking into either a film PenF or a half frame Olympus. Maybe I need to look a little harder
Totally agree. I like the OM1-n since it has mirror lockup and doesn't need batteries to operate.
I started picking up M42 lenses for my mirrorless digi cam. After a while, I came to the realization you can shoot those lenses on all sorts of great film cameras. There are many options, including half-frame cameras, tiny minimalistic cameras, and full-featured cameras. My favorites are Exa 1B which is very small and Zeiss Icarex although Pentax made tons of bodies and the Mamiya 1000DTL is cheap and underappreciated.
Exa 1b fan here! What I like about the M42 lenses is that they have the manual stop down when you adapt them to mirrorless digitals. The OM glass too, but you have to modify the adapter for the Zuikos to do that
I had much the same experience with the Nikon FG-20. Small, light, easy to use, and I got some classic Nikon prime lenses at great bargain prices. The results are amazing.
OM1n 50mm1.4. Fantastic. the 1.4 is quite rightly recognised as one of the great nifty fifties. Great shot of your son.
The main reason besides their image quality is the sheer size of the lenses. They're just so small, I can literally just put them in my trouser pockets. The 85/2 is just the most beautiful portrait lens
Also like you said: there just aren't bad lenses (besides some of their zooms). You can get a great range of lenses for a small budget
I didn't get to use the 85mm but did hear very good things about it.
@@EE12CSVT the bokeh is just so smooth and the lens itself really sharp. Obviously no comparison to the Jupiter-9 (whose swirly effect I still adore nonetheless)
I just bought one, version 2 with the MC on the lens. Looks great on my OM-1 😊
I’ve never cared much about glass either, but the Pentax takumar 105 is the only lens that’s ever wow’d me 😂
Yes! The takumar lenses are also great my partner loves his spotmatic and has taken great portraits with it
I have the Olympus 0m2n with a couple of lenses. The selling point for me was/is the 'off the film metering' which makes it more accurate. The lightness is also a bonus, especially compared to my Nikon F2AS with a 55mm f1.2 lens which is ridiculously heavy.
I agree with your id as on Olympus. I shot Pentax for a long time. I bought an OM-1 with 50mm 1.8 to try after watching zenography and Oly35 videos. I was convinced. Excellent build quality, compact size and amazing results.
Not an analog shooter any longer. Bought two Voigtlanders (35mm f1.4 & 50mm f1.5) and love their character (on Sony A7). The only two focal lenghts I'd "need", though one day adding a 21mm of any aperture would be nice (landscape/indoors).
Suggest you try lenses on either OM1 or 2. These are more premium bodies and while heavier than the OM10 , which is more plastic construction.
I had a 50, 75-150, & 300 ,you certainly noticed that on the camera but all gave me amazing results.
Enjoy this amazing camera and lenses.
Welcome to the Zuiko world 🥰 Of course the premium Leica lenses are better. But Zuiko lenses are not far behind quality wise yet so much more affordable. For many people I would reckon they are more then good enough 🥰 If you look at say vintage Zeiss lenses… their aesthetics vary greatly from focal length to focal length. The Zuikos however share the same lovely and handsome design across the range. They tend to also be physically small. The other characters of many of these Zuikos is that in addition to the colors you spoke off… they give lovely soft creamy backgrounds when they are out of focus. When they have been relubricated… they are truly a delight to focus as they require very little effort and feel super smooth. Another value for money Zuiko would be the 135mm f3.5 🥰 Perhaps a bit heavy in comparison to what you are using… but for a portrait session… I think you will love the colors and the soft out of focus background character … 🥰🥰🥰 It’s great that you love your photography. You’re a winner!!!
Just purchased a Olympus OM-1 SLR! So excited to try out film photography!!
Great camera! Congrats and welcome to film photography.!! 🎞️🤗📸
@@LucyLumen Thank you!! ❤️
Great video I own a couple of Olympus cameras but my favorites are the Olympus 35 RC and the Olympus XA2 the smallest rangefinder with great lens .
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Nice video! I sort of happened onto Olympus somehow, and got hooked on its aesthetic, size, and ease of use. I find the on/off lever a bit flimsy, though it hasn't failed me on both my OM2n and OM2sp. The Leica comparison is apt, since the size of the bodies and lenses are very similar to Olympus. I have an M2, which doesn't have a light meter, which I find frustrating. I recently took both the OM2sp and the M2 to a street costume party, and shot a roll on each. Metering externally on the Leica slowed me down, but on the other hand focusing with a rangefinder is much easier than the ground glass/split circle on an SLR. So I recently acquired and M5, which is the cheapest Leica that does have a lightmeter, and I"m curious to see how that will pan out, but I haven't used it yet. I also inherited a Nikon F2, which is big, bulky and cumbersome. I take it out for a spin once in a while, but it's not the one I reach for naturally. To summarize: My best landscape shots, relying on resolving power, sharpness and color were taken with the Leica, but that might be simply because that was what I had at hand. So for me, the jury is still out, but the addiction is still going strong 🙂.
I kind of have a similar affection but for Pentax lenses, especially the early Pentax primes like the Takumar's. I've only heard good things about the Zuiko glass and I honestly don't see the Leica glass being much or any better than Pentax or Zuiko glass, especially for the price.
Also Pentax did make the Pentax MX and ME series of cameras that are comparable in size to the OM's in case anyone is looking for a compact camera and they have k mount/m42 lenses.
Great points! Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts too
My GOAT lens is the Zuiko 24 f2; took my best shots, have no ideas of its "specs" but the results, it just worked for me . Olympus was one of the few camera companies made all their lens good even the lower priced ones. They also were more contrast orientated like German lens then the other Japanese brands which were more color orientated at the time.
In my use OM1n and OM2n were at least as reliable as the Nikon F cameras. The OM10 and OM20 were not, but they did work well. Auto winders were hard on all cameras other then the Nikon F, so when buying a camera try to buy one that was not used with an auto-winder. The OMs double digit ones were made to a lower standard; but the PC and its two digit mate were made tough as they were based on the OM4, they currently sell at bargain prices in my opinion, you may have to peal the rubber coating off (if it deteriorated) and replace it with something but the parts are available and you could get your favorite color, There were some other later two digit ones but I have no experience in them some are good to get and some not.
Best Olympus point and shoot was the Olympus 35 SP. It was Ansel Adams last camera, if for no other reason. It had a great piece of glass, wish I had one.
That Nikon looks light compared to a Voigtlander or Zeiss SLR of the 60s! I used Leica lens before I went to Olympus they were nice but not as good as the Voigtlander ones maybe a bit better then the Olympus ones but it was a range finder not an SLR and you could never get framing right when you got in close. I understood in the 70s and 80s that the Rolly lens were the best, never had any but was very impressed by photos I saw taken with them.
The OM1 and OM2 had the best viewfinders covered 98 percent of the frame (perfect for slides) if memory serves and were exceptionally bright. The 10 and 20 were bright also, not sure about coverage; all the others were not as good even the 2s, 3 and 4. I mostly shoot slides so no post cropping etc. A lot were technical for product or presentations so framing was critical.
IMHO the OM2n was the best camera to take slides with, due to its flat metering and viewfinder. I still have my original one and some glass. I think I need to clean it up and get some more glass for it.
What a terrific video! Although my favorite standard lens is a Topcor 5.8cm f1.4, I do prefer the Zuiko *range* of lenses, especially my current favorite - the 35-70mm f3.6 zoom. It could very well be the best zoom lens for 35mm of this era. I have an OM4 and it's a delight to use. I love the Topcon RE Super that the Topcor lens is for. It's a remarkable system, very well-built but HEAVY! The OM system is a delight - light-weight and agile! Thank you for posting this!
I had the OM1n with that 50mm lens back in the 1980s. You'll see how incredibly sharp it is if you use a tripod and strong fill-flash on a subject. Otherwise the camera had a fair bit of shuttershock and so the images lacked anything like that bite in ambient light. Olympus kit looked so pretty.
Try locking up the mirror for landscape shots. That is half of the vibration. I weigh my tripod down with my camera bag for a more solid support.
The whole of the Olympus line up of lenses (old and new) are fantastic, from the fisheyes to the 1000mm. Even the Olympus Trip 35 is much love and sought after by Analogue uses (old and new) ... Check out Analog Insights on CZcams.
The M43 range (lumix, olympus .. + 3rd party) meike, 7 Artisans, TT Artisans) is as compact as the Olympus.
You'd love the digital Pen F ....
Enjoyed your video on olympus glass lucy...started to realize while watching it some of the scenes looked familiar then realaized your on the goldcoast like me lol.
Hello fellow gc resident! Maybe you will spot me irl one day! Happy shooting
Nice advert. I've always used Olympus gear - OM1 and an OM2n. I repaired cameras for 25 years, so mine is still in great working order as I service them every few years.
Thank you! Glad to hear you enjoyed. Wow being able to repair them yourself is so great!
You are correct in your statement that Zuiko lenses are a match for anything else out there. All their primes are excellent, however for some reason many people are dismissive when it comes to their zoom lenses from the same period. This is a real shame, as they are outstanding value these days. My favourite is a 35-70 f3.5-4.5. This has all the characteristics of a Zuiko prime, especially size and build quality. While it's only average wide open, ( but actually far from awful ) stop it down to f8 and above and you'll be delighted. The f4 version of this lens is more common, but in either case they can be bought for between £30-50 in decent usable condition in the UK, and I'm sure in NZ as well. Unless you're bokeh obsessed, there's great Zuiko bargains to be had as zooms.
Thanks for watching! Yes you are so right and I love that you are defending zoom lenses because I love most zoom lenses and use Nikon zooms all the time on my F65 and F80. People give them a bad wrap but like you say if you shoot f8 and above it’s perfect! I don’t really care about bokeh unless it is genuinely adding to the image not just bokeh for the sake of bokeh. I feel we are on the same page 🙋🏻♀️👍🏻💯📸🎞
That is good to hear about the Zoom lens. I am considering one of those.
this video is the GOAT! :) wow super impressed, it's so good!!! I adore the Olympus cameras and Zuiko lenses :)
Thank you miss Molly! Lux put lots of effort into the edit and b roll for this one and I spent more time planning as it doubled as an article for fstoppers as well so I paraphrased from that. Need to catch up on your vids we have had no time lately and we watch in the TV so I don’t always get to comment!