Category Archives: Micro Four Thirds

50mm Carl Zeiss Tessar

Couldn’t resist sharing a picture of this beauty: A Carl Zeiss Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens with 8-blade aperture and Exakta mount, fitted to my Olympus PEN E-PL3 via an Exakta-m4/3 adapter.

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Testing Miranda lenses on a m4/3 Olympus (part 2)

Actually, the title is a bit misleading, because this time I’m testing Soligor lenses, although they all have either Miranda screw-mount or bayonet mounts. The weather today was overcast but quite warm for the season, so I did some walking-around … Continue reading

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Miranda – Micro Four Thirds adapter review (part 1)

One of the interesting side-effects of the small register (flange distance to the film/sensor) of the mirrorless digital system cameras is the possibility to use almost any make and model of the older manual lenses with them, provided that the … Continue reading

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Testing Miranda lenses on a m4/3 Olympus (part 1)

Last Saturday, which was an extremely warm and sunny day here in Tampere, I set about cycling around the town with my off-road bicycle, with Olympus PEN E-PL3 body, Miranda-m4/3 adapter and a selection of Miranda lenses in the camera … Continue reading

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Olympus VF-2 viewfinder

As almost all of the modern digital camera users probably agree, the LCD screens on those cameras are in some lighting environments excellent to use, but in some other situations are at best, awful, and at worst, impossible to use. … Continue reading

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