Most of these images were taken at f2.8 or f4. Lighting was terrible and I had to take at least 3 to 5 images of all my subjects. I don't know about you but I find it impossible to tell if an image is sharp or not when reviewing the images on the LCD. It's just too small. Small movement when taking the shot cannot be seen and I tend not to delete any images in-camera. I just wait until I get home and look at them on the montor. SD cards are really cheap these days and I just take a handful with me when I go out. They don't really increase the weight you have to carry around with you.

Again, nice and sharp but you need good light for these lenses, or bump up your ISO. But if you bump up your ISO noise tends to creep in pretty quickly and that is something I just don't like in my images. After a bit of testing to see what shutter speeds I was getting I had no choice but to increase my ISO as high as 1600. Normally 800 is my maximum ISO setting ont he E-PL1 but in this case I had no choice. Some noise reduction in PP was necessary but it hasn't harmed the images that much.

A side view of the Heliar, Ultron and Nokton lenses I posted yesterday. Some of you might have been wondering what they really look like. That Nokton does seem fat doesn't it, but only because the other two are really slim...really. I might just post some images of these lenses mounted on the Nex or E-PL1 cameras just so that you can see how small they are. The Nokton is the heaviest of the 3 lenses and is one of my favourite lenses.

After a little sorting I realized that I have some nice Voigtländer lenses the some of you might not know about. The first 3 are the Heliar 75 f2.5, the Ultron 35 f1.7 and the Nokton 50 f1.5. I've shown a number of images from the 75 and the 50 and I use then quite a bit on both the Nex and m4/3 cameras. The 35 I don't use a lot and I'll explain why in the next couple of days. Most of these lenses cannot be bought new anymore because they just don't make them. They have been superceeded by newer models but that doesn't mean that the newer ones are better than these models here. Both the 75 and 50 perform very well on the Nex and having fokus peeking is a major plus on these cameras. I use my E-PL1 mostly for manual focus lenses in the m4/3 camp because I find it easier to focus than on the other models.

These lenses are the Holy Trinity of Panasonic m4/3 lenses at the time of this post. The 12-35 f2.8 and the 35-100 f2.8 are the fastest zoom available for the m4/3 system right now. The equivalent lenses on 35mm format are the 24-70 f2.8 and the 70-200 f2.8. Put these on the G5 and you have a really wondeful system that covers 95% of all situations. The G5 hasn't had much attention because of the Olympus OM-D but I can tell you here and now that it's a fine camera. There is also the Panasonic GH3 to consider but I see it as more of a movie camera and that is why I went for the G5. Price was also a major factor for my choice.