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<p>Has anyone used the 45mm f2.8P lens for digital photography? If so, what were your results? I have like-new one that I may gift to a relative who has a D5000. If not, I'll be selling it very soon.</p>

"yikes...what is this gonna cost... " Not to worry. The US Treasury is going to bail out Leica too so you can apply to them for a loan to buy it. No sweat; they'll bankroll anything these days. Even if you can't pay back the loan, you can still get the camera.

"...Olympus to name their first Micro 4/3.......Pen" If it's a Micro 4/3, it should be called 'pen' not 'Pen.' ;)

Fake or real--it does get the rumor mill juices flowing, doesn't it? Regardless, I for one would like to see such a camera become a reality. I don't need SLR, zooms, big or lots of bells and whistles. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) made great pics

80 years ago and still can today.

Ilkka, I don't know the answers to all your questions. Remember: This could very well be a fake, or just a teaser to get us interested.

"the clarity and sharpness of the pictures are quite superb." And well they should be in bright sunlight with almost any modern digital and/or film camera, no? This "superb" statement really doesn't say much about the camera's ability to take good pics in other-than-bright sunlight. I've seen--and you must admit you have too--superb digital pics taken in the same conditions with even US $150 digital cameras.

B&H is about as good as they get!

See here for the latest from the Oly Micro 4/3 rumor mill:

http://www.fourthirds-user.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2487

Indeed "How finicky (and critical) we have become!" I find the large rose in the background dreamy smooth. I didn't take out a pixel microscope and look for double-lines, etc. Nor do I look at individual things in isolation. Rather I was just initially impressed by the way the bokeh contributed to an overall sense of pleasing out-of-focus background in the total image. To paraphrase a saying about music from a great jazz player whose name my aging gray cells can't recall: 'If it looks good, it IS good."

Check out the two flower photos in this site and you will see that Leica doesn't have a monopoly on excellent

bokeh: http://www.dpreview.com/gallery/olympus_25_2p8_samples/

"The real question is: if you could only have one lens in the woods where you were not present what would that lens be?" Answer: Does a bear sh-- in the woods? If so, not on my lens puh-lease.

"These pictures are wonderful. The shots could have come out of a Leica M."

 

Scandalous! Heresy!! But true.

Leica koan: The sound of one shutter curtain closing.

 

Or, if a Leica shutter closed in a forest with no humans present would there be a sound?

If you say black lenses are inferior are you a racist?

Want REALLY quiet? Try a pinhole box camera with no shutter!

"All designs have some element of compromise in them, S. Linke."

 

OK, I compromise too: Some lens hood designs are good; some are better. But I won't compromise on this--all pancakes need good syrup or fruit sauce. ;)

To find out how many are enough repeat "Perhaps Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled pixels pointing to post-processing perfection." tens times.

"...inverted cone type hood with a smaller opening. They are typically not as efficient as a standard type hood..." I beg to differ but I do think optical engineers think through and test the design parameters--opening size, etc.--very well when they design dedicated lens hoods. A small opening should not or does not cause vignetting just because it's small. The size of the opening and distance from the front lens element should all be optimized in dedicated hoods.

:-) + :-( = :-()

I believe Oly does make a dedicated lens hood for the 25mm f2.8 which seems to have a smaller opening than the one shown above. Companies produce dedicated lens hoods whose openings are designed to optimized for that particular optical path, which varies according to each lens focal length and maxium aperture. Generic lens hoods may or may not fit this bill. Just like Nikon makes a deciated hood for it's 45mm f2.8 "pancake" lens, which I have.

Because of W's war and politics, they figured the US doesn't deserve 2 lens kits,

just one.

And when photograhers arrived on the scene they made ...

6) photographers ;)

Without a doubt the Hexar AF with Hexanon 35mm f2 lens!

Nature's acupuncture?

I guess Valery's portrait above (with a Contax lens) debunks the myth that Leica has the best bokeh in town.