24 mm shift

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Which 24 mm shift lens is recommended for the M? I am considering the Olympus 24 shift ( I own several Oly lenses and like their design) or the new Wallimex. The Wallimex is even cheaper. Which lens will give better optical performance?

 

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[plewislambert]

"Which 24 mm shift lens is recommended for the M? I am considering the Olympus 24 shift ( I own several Oly lenses and like their design) or the new Wallimex. The Wallimex is even cheaper. Which lens will give better optical performance? "

Very interesting question.

My experience of shift lenses on an M9 is limited to the Olympus 35mm shift lens ( good results, not wide-angle enough) and a Nikkor 28mm shift (which I currently use frequently with good results on an M9). 24mm might be better for getting in the entire cathedral.....

I too would like a 24mm Olympus but they only appear to be on sale at absurd prices at dealers.

Is the Wallimex the same as Samyang? I see them offered at 1000euro for a lens for which I could not find an independent review. The shift facility is invaluable for architecture pictures but who needs tilt on a 24mm?

If I remember my Linhof monorail photos in 1980, tilt alters the plane of sharp focus from a vertical position to a sloping one in either plane.

With a 24mm lens stopped down to f8 or f11 almost everything is in focus. Is the tilt facility to be used to reduce this?

Philip

[tgm]

"Which 24 mm shift lens is recommended for the M? I am considering the Olympus 24 shift ( I own several Oly lenses and like their design) or the new Wallimex. The Wallimex is even cheaper. Which lens will give better optical performance? "

Very interesting question.

My experience of shift lenses on an M9 is limited to the Olympus 35mm shift lens ( good results, not wide-angle enough) and a Nikkor 28mm shift (which I currently use frequently with good results on an M9). 24mm might be better for getting in the entire cathedral.....

I too would like a 24mm Olympus but they only appear to be on sale at absurd prices at dealers.

Is the Wallimex the same as Samyang? I see them offered at 1000euro for a lens for which I could not find an independent review. The shift facility is invaluable for architecture pictures but who needs tilt on a 24mm?

If I remember my Linhof monorail photos in 1980, tilt alters the plane of sharp focus from a vertical position to a sloping one in either plane.

With a 24mm lens stopped down to f8 or f11 almost everything is in focus. Is the tilt facility to be used to reduce this?

Philip

 

Philip,

yes, I think the Wallimex, the Samyang and also the Rokinon 24 mm shift lenses are the same. They have 16 lenses in 11 groups including two aspherical and two ED lenses. So one could expect that such modern lens shows better performance, especially wide open than the Olympus shift, with 12 elements, more than twenty years old. But is that true? What about the mechanics?

 

Thomas

[Simon Bee]

The Olympus OM 24mm Shift Lens is stunning !

 

"Mint" examples in the UK seem to hover around £1400.00 .... IMO this is NOT expensive as it can do things that few other lenses for the 35mm format can do at that wide a field of view. Just like Leica lenses 'you get what you pay for' ...... optical and engineering excellence. Oh and just because the design is 20 or more years old does not mean that it will be inferior to a new design, do we think that way about our Leica lenses ? ........ no I thought not

 

If you 'really' need a 24mm Shift then the Olympus will be money well spent, there's a reason why many Canon users who need such a lens have bought and converted the Oly to EOS mount even though Canon make a 24mm Shift of their own.

 

Kind regards

 

Simon