bill_pearce2

<p>At least she's starting with the best lenses in the format. The cctv stuff was never anything but junk. </p>

<p>That's not much less than the price new in the box. Just remember the old saying, "There's no accounting for taste."</p>

<p>Actually, the world of C mount lenses is a minefield. There are many fine ones, made by German manufacturers that were used on 16mm movie cameras used by journalists, but as one who shot TV newsfilm in the day, I can assure you that condition could be a challenge. Others that were not so well made were ones designed for surveillance cameras with a 1" vidicon tube that were of predictably low quality that were sold for a very low price.<br> One of the nicest I ever used was a angeniux 10x zoom, but it was very long and skinny, and not designed for hand holding on cameras like today's m4/3.</p>

<p>I have a Metz flash with a foot described as being for Leica and Olympus, and it works great on all three.</p>

<p>I've got four cameras, a Nikon D3, a Leica M9, a Panasonic GX7 and aan Olympus OMD EM5 mk. II. First off, megapixels don't seem to make a big difference between, 12, 16 and 18. I've taken shots with the D3 up to 17x25 and they looked just as good as the others. If you're not shooting in extremely low light, I don't think there will be a noticeable difference unless you're looking at individual pixels on your computer. If you're doing that, get a life.</p>

<p>These answers don't get to the point, I think. Yes, the difference between 4/3 and 35 mm is 2x, but the meat of this question is will a C mount lens cover a 4/3 frame.<br> Having once used a lot of C mount lenses professionally, albeit years ago, I can't imagine that any C mount lens would be used on a 35mm camera. The chances of it covering all the frame are 0. I would be surprised if a c mount lens could cover a 4/3 sensor, and it's likely the results would have to be cropped to a square. A 16mm frame is really tiny, about the size of my thumbnail. much like the sensor in small compacts. So, if you have some C mount lenses you want to play with, more power to you, there were some really good lenses made for that format, but just have fun.</p>