... largely in agreement with you.
An odd feeling this is.
It seems to me that your solution caters to 4/3rds strengths and fills obvious holes without trying to do too much.
i think people want all sorts of things in lenses
but this is a question of priorities that are a good system fit. This dodging about with a few mm up and down from lenses already in the range with some unrealistic fast F stop does nothing but annoy me.
and yes you are right, that makes my selection obvious, without a whole lot of change. But they are very necessary for completeness to improve the systems task capability. And if Oly rationalised their lens suite to something sensible, and they should, they would be a lot more standout.
Perhaps Oly is dragging on the 100 macro because of the Sigma 105mm macro.
the Sigma macros in particular are quite worthwhile, their contribution elsewhere like long lenses could be better.
Im not sure what the problem is with acquiring much of the rest of Sigma's suite in 4/3rds mount, but it is probably related to too low a sales potential. I do know that back in 06 Tamron and Oly talked about a collaborative effort with lenses, but the volumes were too low for them, ....enter Sigma.
One thing on glass like that, macros and Sigma's in general do very well at the portrait style of photography and thats where they find their market. Where they usually fall over is in the longer end of the range out to infinity where they go flat and dull. Primes of course do not bear that particular cross.
The whole problem that Oly have, is that lenses for this format have to perform from the get go virtually wide open, that just doesnt suit pretty well all the 3rd party lens suites that are intended or derived from larger formats.
They really should contract out the generic first and maybe some second tier stuff, and furnish more glowing examples themselves, b/se they are the only ones who will do it.
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