E-M5 & Legacy glass

I have a few legacy lenses that I'm using on the E-M5. I don't have OM lenses but I'm using the old Minolta ones. This camera works very well with legacy lenses. When I had the NEX-7 I loved using the focus peaking and thought I would miss it a lot coming to the E-M5. Thanks to the IBIS it works very well in stabilizing the image even while in the magnified view using the 135mm lens. I was not able to get that on the NEX-7. Though it would be nice if Olympus can add focus peaking on this camera, it'll make MF even easier  

At first when using the 135mm lens, the image was still jumping around quite a bit. I then noticed I had to adjust the focal length in the IS setting. After setting it to 135mm, wow, worked beautifully.

Here's a Minolta 135mm f2.8

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Here's a Minolta 58mm f1.4

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Here's a picture taken with the 135mm wide open around sunset

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Here's one taken with the 58mm wide open, kinda soft when shot wide open

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I've tried another one of my legacy lenses, the 45mm f2, and it was a bit jumpy when the focal length was set to 135mm. I mean it's still stable but moves a bit more if I move my hand slightly.

 

Some people this side of the pond reporting problems with the zoom to focus not working consistently when assigned to a Fn button - anything like that for you?

 

Are you talking about the magnify view set to Fn button? If so then yeah I have problem sometimes too. There are times that I'll need to press it many times for it to activate while some times it works as normal. It's kinda annoying lol

 

Just got EM-5 today so haven't tried OM lenses yet

 

What needs to be done with regard to other lens rather than Olympus and the IS setting.

I just got an adapter in the mail to mount a 50mm zeiss 1.4 . Has a nikon mount but thought it would be fun to give it a try on the epen3,but since getting the em5 i might as well try it there.

 

E-M5's image stabilization makes this 300 hand held ready.

 

Not sure what I am doing wrong, I have adjusted the IS for my 135mm MD lens, but I'm not seeing any difference in the shaky nature.

Am I missing something?

 

You have to turn on viewfinder stabalisation in the menu.

 

I have IS turned on... forgive me if I read your response wrong, but where is "viewfinder stabilization"... it's not discussed in the manual.

 

I have mine set to IS 1 and make sure you have "Half Way Rls With IS" set to On.

 

It is in the c menu called half way rls with is

 

What kind of lens collar is that? Been looking for one.

 

Perfect... thank you so much.