GH3 budget vintage lenses for gh3

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stefanocps

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ok, i now the issues has been tretaed so many time, but i need to make my own questions :). so considering to buy some lenses faster than the 14 45 and 45 175 my first choice is to look for a zoom ones that would cover an average extensions, or a couple(at least) of primes. In the second case i need to understand what are the let's say focal standard lens use for shooting movie, (35mm or 19mm or whatever), let's say for panooramic and very close.... what would you suggest?primes or zoom, and if you can name some models.thanks
 
Primes for vintage all the way. There are issues with chromatic aberration in most vintage zooms that makes them unappealing to me. YMMV with vintage zooms though.

For the wide angle you are stuck with modern lenses as vintage ultra wides are not all that wide on the 2x crop and are very expensive not very fast relatively speaking.

I'm partial to Olympus OM Zuiko lenses from the early 80's. I have a number of them. Incredible sharpness and a bright contrasty image. Try to get ones with the MC on them. That is for Multi Coating and they are much nicer with flares and such.

Others like the Nikkor AIS and Canon FD lenses. I find them to be muddy colors and nowhere near as sharp as the OM lenses.

My set would be a 28 f/2.8, 35 f/2.8, 50 f/1.4, 85 f/2. I also have an OM 300mm F/4.5 ED. Awesome lens !!!

Just my 0.02

Cheers,
Pete
 
stefanocps said:
noone would suggest me anything?
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Let me suggest something. And we are talking figuring out primes here.

You ever see footage of directors that take the thumb and first finger of each hand and make a sort of square that they would peer through prior to shooting a scene.

So do the same thing and then take your 14-45 and see if you can replicate the field of view that you liked with your fingers. Look on the focus scale and that will begin to tell you what it is you are looking for.

Some might want 25mm, some 35mm, and for some 50mm because of the slight compression you get on a 2x crop sensor (all those other values are full frame equivalents).

Go out with your 14-45 and start shooting - anything. Check your focal lengths for each shot and you will begin to realize what kind of framing you want and what focal length will give you that. At that point you can start asking more specific questions that I'm sure many people will help you with.
 
that s a goo answer,though main question is better prime or zoom. on ething if on my limix lens i say i like 45 focal, that mean that if i d buy a ff prime should be 22 prime?
 
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