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

Started Mar 15, 2013 | Questions thread
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Re: Your thoughts and experience: Oly 75mm or Pana 35-100?
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tgutgu wrote:

I own both lenses. Both are very sharp, the 35-100mm is the best mirrorless tele zoom, to date.

In practice, I use the 35-100mm a lot more, because it is more flexible.

A 7-14mm, 12-35mm, 35-100mm combination is probably the lightest, smallest, and most flexible lens combination you can get on the market now.

I use the 75mm mainly, when I need the fast aperture, or when I simply want to use it. However, it will probably not part of my travel kit.

Amen. I have same lenses and love the Panasonic zooms. Also bought all the Olympus primes before Panasonic came out with the zooms. Now use virtually only the zooms. A couple of things to consider:

  • I do a lot of burst shooting when shooting aerial and portraits. The OM-D shuts down the IS when at max speed. So it might be a good idea to turn off the internal IS and use the lens's IS in that situation.
  • The zoom ring on an Olympus turns opposite of the Panasonic. So staying with one brand reduces the incidence of schizophrenia when the pressure is on.
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