Rangefinder or other compact lenses for GH1

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pomoville

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I picked up a GF1 off Amazon (hackable, surprisingly,) and because of the form factor, I've become more interested in finding some compact lenses to throw on there besides the m/43 pancakes. Rangefinder mounts are appealing to me, because with the short flange distances, the adapters are nice and flat. With that said, I'm not very knowledgable about these lenses. Anyone have any recommendations?

I did buy an Industar 50mm F3.5 pancake, but that's an m42 lens so it'll still stick out quite a ways. It's also quite slow, but I still found it rather appealing for the price.
 
I like the look of those 110 lenses, especially for the price. Adapter are slightly expensive, but oh well.

I'd kind of like to get a set, maybe. The film cam itself looks pretty cool as well.

Do you find it much of a pain to be stuck wide open all the time? How's the image quality?

I ended up buying a leica m39 adapter and a Jupiter-8, which looks to be a pretty good little lens. I'd like to get something wide as well, though.
 
I've never used the Pentax 110 system myself. I've just seen posts about them on this forum in the past. The adapter is expensive, probably because they are pretty rare. My guess is these are fun, cool looking lenses but probably not the most practical or highest quality image producers. But that's just a guess. If the criteria is simply "smallest lenses", these should at least be in the running.
 
The Panasonic pancake lenses are about as compact as you can get.
There isn't anything special about 'rangefinder' lenses as such, compared to slr lenses.
I have a leica 35m f 2 lens which is extremely small and light though. The lens quality is superb of course, but that comes at a price.
I have a Kodak c mount lens which is also very light. However it's rather long.
 
chrisso said:
The Panasonic pancake lenses are about as compact as you can get.
There isn't anything special about 'rangefinder' lenses as such, compared to slr lenses.
I have a leica 35m f 2 lens which is extremely small and light though. The lens quality is superb of course, but that comes at a price.
I have a Kodak c mount lens which is also very light. However it's rather long.
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And that's not even the smallest lens that system has. They made a pancake lens too.
 
What's your point?
I'm not commenting on the Olympus lenses you are suggesting.
Just essentially saying the average 'rangefinder' lens is not generally as light and compact as the native pancake lenses.
 
Yes, but the adapters are smaller than they are for slr lenses.

Best acquisition so far is a Konica Hexanon 40mm F1.8 pancake, which happens to fit onto my 4/3-m4/3 adapter, with a little bit of work. Very nice pretty compact.
 
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