First image with my Yashinon DS 50mm f1.7

[alfredo]

I had it wide open in this shot to test the bokeh. Because the M 4/3 has a 2X crop factor, my 50mm is now a 100mm. That makes it perfect for portraits.

I bought the Rainbow Imagining M42 to M4/3 adaptor.

[postatomic]

1. You put a Yashica lens on your ELP1 ??

Too cool. I went to the site you mentioned and noticed that they make an adapter for Canon lenses. What I don't understand is the huge price difference. What makes a $200 adapter that much better than a $20 one? If neither fully communicates with the camera then what's the real difference? I'm confused.

I noticed that your camera doesn't register the aperture or focal length. I have manual lenses that I use frequently that do the same thing. They do 'meter' in aperture priority but I have to usually stop down the exposure quite a bit to compensate for inaccurate metering. Your photo above doesn't look like you had that problem. If I can add my Canon optics to the ELP1 then I'm 110% sold on this camera.

Thanks for providing some very useful information. I appreciate that. I have some digital compacts but they are of the standard 'point & shoot' variety with one exception.

It's nice to come on here and get good info without having to slither about the internetz tubes for hours and end up having more questions than answers.

I'll be joining the Olympus PENNEY CLUB very soon.
:hi:

[alfredo]

2. The Yashinon is a fully manual lens, so there will be

no info in the EXIF file. I had an old Yashica Electro X camera I had saved because I am a pack rat. the meter had died, but everything else was good.

I did do a bit of post processing to knock up the colors a bit.

This image was done under overcast skies. It was a bit underexposed. I did Auto White Balance in Post Processing, and cropped it a bit.

I shut down the lens a bit to see if that would change the bokeh. It did.

This lens will not be with me when doing street photography, its just too heavy, and I am not fast enough yet to use it "in anger."

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. interesting ..columbine and cacti in the same region?...I thought columbine was a northern plant?

a group of doves

[alfredo]

4. Prickly Pear grows all over the US. Mine are ready to bloom, maybe Friday.

[Alameda]

5. do you ever eat the paddles? Yum they are good. I pickle them.

[alfredo]

6. I've eaten the fruit when I lived in Africa. I think I've had the

pads a few years ago.

[Alameda]

7. they are good for blood sugar & cholesteral control.

Why don't you try them? I boil water with some salt in it, put the sliced nopale in, boil for 10 minutes, rinse and pickle them. There are other ways to use them, that's my way. After that I put them in many things, They make a nice salad, great in chicken salad or anything you might put pickles in. I put a lot of garlic and habeneros in my pickles. To each their own.

Here....

http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/2163-cooking-with-cactus-nopales-cactus

Make sure to wear gloves and remove the spines before eating. I use a potato peeler to get the spines off.

edited to give glove and spine info.

[alfredo]

8. Good thick leather work gloves are the best. The people who

harvest the prickly pears used a soup can attached to a stick. They give it a flick and the fruit pops off into the can. They then roll the fruit under their well calloused feet to get the spines off. They aren't that juicy, but good enough. Very seedy though.

A butane torch should make short work of the spines.

I've had Nopale a few years ago. It had a nice tang.

[Mz Pip]

9. I love the depth of field on this

It's something I need to play around with more.

Beautiful flower portrait. :-)

[alfredo]

10. It's a nice bright lens @ f1.7.

The Bokeh on my 14~42mm isn't too bad.