Random question about the EX1

[Mike Harvey]

Kinda random question about the EX1... on the zoom ring, is 16mm and 22mm at the zoom or wide end of the lens?

I ask because I was told that on the upcoming SGblade 35mm adapter, you need to be zoomed in to 16mm for non-flipped and 22mm for the flipped module. I'm assuming that's towards the wide end of the lens... but since I don't own an EX1, didn't really know how wide/zoomed that was.

[PerroneFord]

My lens is graduated from 5.8mm to 81.2

[Mike Harvey]

So then I take it I am correct that it is towards the wide end of the spectrum?

[PerroneFord]

Yes. What is the significance?

[Mike Harvey]

I was going to buy a Letus Extreme around the end of the year, which requires you to be zoomed most of the way in... but if the SGBlade requires very little zoom on the camera, I think I may hold off the extra month until it comes out.

Thanks for the info.

[Barry_Green]

Zooming in less means that the lens will let in more light. So if your choice was between one adapter that required a zoom of 80mm, and another which got proper field of view at 16mm, then the one at 16mm is going to result in an overall brighter picture.

[thxdave]

Plus you'd be farther away from the CA-plagued end of the zoom position, too, right?

[Mike Harvey]

I hadn't even thought about the zoom/light issue. I was just thinking about how much less of a headache it could be to have that much more room to zoom in and out (assuming there isn't a focus issue) using the camera as opposed to having to deal with either a 35mm zoom lens that would have a higher maximum f stop or getting a large variety of low f stop primes. Theoretically, if I could zoom out that far, all I would need would be one or two decent primes and I would be set. Would I be wrong in that thinking?