Popsci tested the Leica Elmar-M 24mm f/3.8 lens ($2,400) on the Olympus E-P2 ($850 body-only) using the Novoflex’s Leica M-Mount Micro Four Thirds adapter ring ($270). They also shot with the Olympus 17mm f/2.8 lens ($275) for comparison.

Christian Erhardt, Leica’s VP of Marketing tells why that combination doesn’t work very well:

“Our lenses our designed to work best with full format, the light can hit different pixels of the sensor at a very extreme angle–once you have that, the image may be slightly out of focus, or not as bright around the edges.”.

But he also explained why Leica choosed to not join the MicroFourThirds alliance: “One reason why we’ve decided not to move into Micro Four Thirds is that we have looked at the sensor size and realized that it cannot produce the image quality that we need. Therefore we decided to stick with the full format in addition to APS-C. It’s all about the ratios“.

Do you really think the Leica X1with fixed lens(!) that sells for $1,995.00 is a better solution?
By the way, Popsci came to the conclusion that the price difference doesn’t justify the use of the Elmarit instead of the Olympus 17mm lens

Source: Popsci
Found via: Noisycamera

Image courtesy: @forumolympusfrance

Forum Olympus France tested the Panasonic 7-14mm lens on the Olympus E-P2. Pleas notice that you can read the review in Français, English and Español (you can choose the language on the top of the article)

SLRclub tested the new Olympus 14-150mm lens. Translation is not available because they post their articles as Jpegs(!!!). But there are videos and a lot of image samples and comparisons.

PEKKA POTKA: Leica lenses on Olympus PEN. Interesting to see the same lens perform on the Leica M9 and then on the Olympus E-P2

Lots of good words for the new Panasonic G2 on DPreview! Read their review: http://dpreview.com/reviews/PanasonicDMCG2/

The most surprising “Cons” is “New kit lens not as good as predecessor“.

Review scores by DPreview (Thanks Reverse!)
72% Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2
69% Olympus PEN E-PL1
65% Sony Alpha NEX-5
63% Sony Alpha NEX-3

Steve Huff just published the first two parts of the Sony NEX-3 vs Olympus E-P2 vs Leica X1 review.

Click here to read part one and here to read part two of Steve Huffs review.

P.S.: First NEX-5 Shots / vs. E-PL1 (Tom Hoots on dpreview forum)

You are not going to see such a combination very often. “Mister Le” has taken some image samples with the Panasonic G2 (which costs $799.00) and the über-expensive $loc = $_SESSION['geoip'];

if ($loc == 'GB' OR $loc == 'UK')
{ $sel = "1"; ?>Canon EF 800mm f/5.6 L IS USM Lens (£11,099.00 on Amazon UK) if ($loc == 'DE')
{ $sel = "1"; ?>Canon EF 800mm 1:5,6L IS USM Lens (12.568,98 on Amazon Deutschland!) if ($loc == 'AU')
{ $sel = "1"; ?>Canon EF 800mm 1:5,6L IS USM Lens (12.568,98 on Amazon Deutschland!) if ($loc == 'FR' OR $loc == 'FX')
{ $sel = "1"; ?>Canon EF 800mm f/5.6 (EUR 12.434,99 on Amazon France!) if ($loc == 'US')
{ $sel = "1"; ?>Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Super Telephoto Lens (over 10.00o$…Click here to see it for yourself !!) if ($sel != '1')
{?>Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Super Telephoto Lens (over 10.00o$…Click here to see it for yourself !!)

The funny thing is that he used a 2x teleconverter on it…that makes 800mm x2 (converter) x2 (FourThirds) = 3.200mm!!!

Click here to see the image samples: Canonmonster on Flickr (Thanks Mister Le)