Agree with Will Crockett

Interesting. Unlike Nikon, Panasonic is an electronics company. And like Nikon, Olympus is an optical company.

Panasonic needs help from Leica to design their better optics. Olympus manages quite well on it's own. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see Olympus designed Sony lenses in the near future.

As I said, your stubbornness negates you some excellent optics

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