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What lenses do we need?

Started Jun 4, 2014 | Polls thread
Dave Lively Senior Member • Posts: 1,938
Re: What lenses do we need?

The lenses I want and would actually buy are:

1 - A good 300mm+ option.  Hopefully the announced Olympus 300mm f4 will fill this gap.

2 - A mid grade standard zoom.  Something between the 14-42 kit zooms and the high grade 12-35 and 12-40 zooms.  Something like the 16-85 for Nikon SLRs or the 14-54 Olympus used to make for 43 SLRs.  It should be just priced in the middle but should also weigh somewhere between the current options and start at 12mm.  Basically the 12-50 but with better optical performance.

I used to think I wanted something longer than 400mm but after experimenting with a 2x teleconverter on a Canon FD L 300mm I now think that is more than I want.

For a system that is only 5 years old that is a pretty short list.

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