13 hours ago
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Re: Why no Olympus "pro" standard zoom
In reply to amtberg,
4 months ago
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amtberg wrote:
Gregm61 wrote:
acidic wrote:
Does anybody here think that Olympus will make a "pro" standard zoom lens? By "pro" I'm referring to something with a fixed aperture in the 12-35mm or 12-50mm range. Panasonic makes the 12-35/2.8, but it would be nice if there were another alternative (one without the OIS). I see that Oly has a 14-35mm f/2 for Four-thirds; it would be nice if something like that was made available for Micro four thirds. Same with the 12-60mm/2.8-4 (though it's not fixed aperture, I wouldn't mind since f/4 is still pretty decent). And no, I don't want to shoot with a 4/3 to M4/3 adapter.
Been shooting with the Oly 14mm, Pany 20mm/1.7, and Oly 45mm as of late. While I do enjoy primes, I'd much prefer a sharp zoom for less critical, day to day stuff.
Three weeks ago while at Arlington Camera on a Saturday to pick up my new 75mm f1.8, the Olympus reps were there with the entire Micro Four-Thirds system for anyone to play with. I said my peace to them about the Olympus policy of not including lens hoods and also asked the question about at least a better quality normal zoom. They said "stay tuned, fast zooms are next on the list...". I seriously doubt we'll see f2 zooms. That 14-35mm f2 you mentioned from the four-thirds system costs well over $2,000. A 12-60mm f2.8-3.5 or f4 would be plenty good.
Is that 6 months from now or two years? I have no idea. With the 12, 17, 45, 60 and 75 primes for now I'll struggle along :).
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"There's shadows in life, baby.." Jack Horner- Boogie Nights
I wonder if they will ever build a lens with built-in IS? Probably not, IMO, but it seems kind of silly to lose roughly half of their potential market with longer lenses because there's no in-lens IS.
As long as their bodies include stabilization I would never see it happening. Not only is every micro four-thirds lens stabilzed with the current system, even any manual focus lens you adapt to a body where you can dial the focal length into the camera's IS system is also stabilzed.
I've never had a hard time getting sharp images using the 75-300 M. Zuiko with the E-M5 and I've seen plenty of users here using Panasonic tele zooms who say they are just using the in-camera IS system instead of the mega OIS system in the lens.
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"There's shadows in life, baby.." Jack Horner- Boogie Nights
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