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Your thoughts and experience: Oly 75mm or Pana 35-100?

Started Mar 15, 2013 | Questions thread
CrisPhoto
CrisPhoto Senior Member • Posts: 1,749
Re: Your thoughts and experience: Oly 75mm or Pana 35-100?

I could not make the decision for a long time, but I just bought the 75mm.

Why?

  • Temptation:
    I would have bought the 75 anyhow
  • Cheap:
    400euros less
  • Sharper:
    I compared it with the 12-35 using testcharts
  • 1.8:
    I like taking low light portraits in natural light or dog action in a forest, f5.6 was noisy, 2.8 would do but 1.8 is best.
  • 2013:
    Last not least, there are interesting zooms coming in the near future while the prime department has settled now. So I buy the prime now and maybe a zoom next year
 CrisPhoto's gear list:CrisPhoto's gear list
Olympus E-M1 II Samyang 7.5mm F3.5 Fisheye Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm F1.8 Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-140mm F3.5-5.6 O.I.S Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 15mm F1.7 ASPH +9 more
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