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

Started Mar 15, 2013 | Questions thread
daddyo Forum Pro • Posts: 12,670
Re: Your thoughts and experience: Oly 75mm or Pana 35-100?
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It seems to me that your decision mostly boils down to the convenience of the Pany 35-100mm lens versus the speed of the Olympus lens -- they are both razor sharp, and in real world use a viewer couldn't tell whether an image was captured with one or the other using the same aperture.

I don't own the 75mm, but I do own the 35-100mm -- because I shoot mostly corporate events, and portraits professionally. The zoom make way more sense for my needs.

I do a lot of head and shoulder portraits and being able to get consistent in-camera crops without moving my tripod around constantly is a no-brainer for me. I don't like shooting commercial portraits any wider than f/2.8-f/4 anyway, because I don't want a client's eyes in focus and their nose out of focus.

Also, I shoot a lot of low light, ambient boardroom/classroom sessions where flash would be a distraction and my moving about needs to be at a minimum -- the 35-100mm combined with the high ISO performance of my E-M5 allows me to maintain a reasonable distance and shoot nice close ups as well as wider shots without moving all about the room.

Your needs may be different, but I find the Pany 35-100mm to be like a whole bag full of f/2.8 prime lenses without the headache of constantly switching lenses:-)

God Bless,

Greg

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