Questions unanswered.
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ydgmdlu
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Eh, I knew about that lens already, so the first sentence was an oversight. But I did say that you can't get any zoom faster than F2.8 for less than $2000. The Oly 14-35mm is most commonly found for around $2100 or more. And AF doesn't work on it when adapted for MFT.
Really, the "camera" has been out for months, since last fall. The G1 fans have been going thru the lens issues for quite awhile. I pointed to some relevant threads in my "Adapting lenses to the GH1" thread, but the forum with the big activity for adapting lenses is at www.getdpi.com
My understanding was that there was some technical problem that prevented EF lenses from being adapted and it looked like they couldn't be adapted. This is what I heard from the stills people.
This is the only lens mount I'm aware of where people think that it can't or won't be adapted, but I haven't been paying too close attention because I don't have any EF lenses.
Basically there are two kinds of organizations making adapters. Large companies that are doing it because they want to add value to existing lenses they already make-- this is why Panasonic has an MFT to FT adapter, and also why they are coming out with Leica M and Leica R adapters (basically they're doing that for Leica who is a partner of theirs.)
Then there's guys with machine shops who are designing their own adapters, probably without access to the official MFT spec. These guys are mostly in china, and they are rapidly building up their capabilities to adpat lenses, but this is more the cutting edge and also where you'll be expected to put up with a little bit of lack of fineness in the products.
Now, I don't have any reason to believe that any of these guys-in-garage products are poor quality, quite the opposite. But it will take them time to build up the capability to do the more complex adaptations.
They've been at it for 6 months or so... not sure how long before they'll find a solution to the EF issue, or if they are motivated to do so.
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Steve Castle
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Borg makes an EF-mount to u4/3rds adapter. The problem is that it's still pretty cumbersome, obvious it's entirely manual since it has no electrical contacts. Shooting wide-open isn't a problem, but changing the aperture is still very tricky at the moment.
