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Apologies to Chris for nicking his title.
I thought I'd have a crack at playing around with an old legacy lens on the my M4/3 cams after seeing a local photographers efforts on his Pany M4/3 with an ancient Jupiter-8. So I picked up a 1974 version, the PT3110 one here,
These were all developed in Viewer with +1 contrast, and just cropped, straightened and jpegged in Elements. I set the camera to 'P' mode and Auto ISO so I could concentrate on focus and aperture. The lens is 50mm, which is the E-M5's default for manual lenses on the IBIS system.
I started to play around in Lightroom, sharpening, removing CA, upping contrast but then I thought "what are you doing? If you wanted crisp, clear, sharp shots why buy an old lens?
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So this thing is TINY, it isn't very contrasty, has peculiar CA on high contrast edges, it's not the sharpest tool in the box, but I'm beginning to quite like it.
I thought I'd have a crack at playing around with an old legacy lens on the my M4/3 cams after seeing a local photographers efforts on his Pany M4/3 with an ancient Jupiter-8. So I picked up a 1974 version, the PT3110 one here,
These were all developed in Viewer with +1 contrast, and just cropped, straightened and jpegged in Elements. I set the camera to 'P' mode and Auto ISO so I could concentrate on focus and aperture. The lens is 50mm, which is the E-M5's default for manual lenses on the IBIS system.
I started to play around in Lightroom, sharpening, removing CA, upping contrast but then I thought "what are you doing? If you wanted crisp, clear, sharp shots why buy an old lens?
".So this thing is TINY, it isn't very contrasty, has peculiar CA on high contrast edges, it's not the sharpest tool in the box, but I'm beginning to quite like it.
If only my pics would be sharp when I see them sharp in the view finder. In general 2/3 of all taken are OOF, even though they looked correct to the eye 
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