Canon nFD 28mm f/2.8, In the Garden

Digital Moments: Image making with a Canon FD 28mm f/2.8, in the garden.

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One of the options of having the equivalent of a 'nifty-fifty on a 2x crop sensor Micro 4/3 digital camera is to mount the camera with a manual focus lens with a focal length of 28mm. This setup will give you a lens with the equivalent focal length of 56mm, which is slightly longer than what a true 50mm prime will give you.

You might, on the other hand, try the option with an ultra-wide 24mm lens, which makes it the equivalent of a 48mm lens, but like you, these ultra-wides could cost you much more to acquire.

One good example of a 28mm f/2.8 manual focus lens, appreciated and acknowledged because of its exceptional quality performance, is the Canon (new) FD 28mm f/2.8, the last and most popular among Canon's FD 28mm lenses.

The lens is very compact, with plenty of plastic parts, measures 40mm overall, is lightweight at 170 grams, and is the second lightest among the FD lenses. The lens takes 52mm filters, and what is unique with this 7-element in 7-groups lens is that it has two convex front elements incorporated into the design to reduce spherical aberration.

Olympus E-P5, Canon nFD 28mm f/2.8

If you are like me, as some of you might have noticed, I shoot both analog and digital. Having a lens that can be used both on a digital (Olympus E-P5 with adapter) and analog (Canon 35mm SLRs) is always a cost-saving, with the added advantage that I also have a lens with 2 effective focal lengths. On the E-P5, the lens is almost a perfect 'nifty-fifty, and on Canon's A-series 35mm SLRs, it is the perfect wide-angle lens.

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