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

Started Mar 15, 2013 | Questions thread
Jman13 Senior Member • Posts: 1,424
Re: Your thoughts and experience: Oly 75mm or Pana 35-100?
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I own both. They are both phenomenal lenses, and the 75/1.8 might be the finest optic overall I've ever owned. However, if I could only keep one, it would be the 35-100 hands down. They are both very sharp lenses with great renderings, but the versatility of the 35-100 wins out for me. I bring my 75/1.8 in my bag when I know I'm going to be shooting portraits, or if I know I'm going to want telephoto with much shallower depth of field, but my 35-100 is in my bag EVERY day I bring my OM-D. Also, I use the 35-100 over the 75mm when in a studio setting, as I'm usually shooting at around f/5.6, and there the 75 is really no sharper, so I simply gain flexibility and lose nothing.  It is very sharp at all focal lengths and all apertures, autofocus is extremely fast and accurate, and it's weathersealed.

I've done reviews of both, if you're interested:

75mm: http://admiringlight.com/blog/review-olympus-m-zuiko-75mm-f1-8-ed-msc/

35-100: http://admiringlight.com/blog/review-panasonic-lumix-g-vario-35-100mm-f2-8-x-ois/

I love my Oly primes, especially the 60/2.8 macro and 75/1.8, but if I could only have 3 lenses for m4/3, it'd be the 7-14, 25/1.4 and 35-100.

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