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What lenses do we need?

Started Jun 4, 2014 | Polls thread
oeoek Contributing Member • Posts: 532
Re: What lenses do we need?
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I can't speak for 'we' but just for me, and as far as I'm concerned M43 already has a pretty complete lens line up. Unless one is into some rather specialised field of photography, the available gear will do well (ok, not for small bats at nightfall, frame filling please...). If you can't pick a good set now, it is not the tools that are the problem.

I have a set of 4 primes from 7.5 to 45mm and a long zoom up to 300mm. That set is more complete than I ever had, and it uses a small bag I once used for a Canon T70 with just two moderate primes. For most lenses there is even more than one choice available.

If desired, a pro-zoom set is already available (Pany) or on the way (Oly), and several specialist items (fast wide zoom, long tele prime) are also on the way.

I would say the lens line up is now close to just filling in some specialised items (more macrozooms, video zooms, perhaps a few leaf shutter lenses for higher flash syncs).

And of course there is the ever lasting cry for very personal wishes, sometimes venturing into the ridiculous. How many zooms in the standard range do we need, one for every possible wide and tele aperture? And how many space between primes, a prime for every two degrees FoV difference? Lets not forget pancakes for every focal length and aperture...

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Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 25mm F1.8 Olympus OM-D E-M5 Olympus PEN E-PM2 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-150mm 1:4-5.6 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 45mm F1.8 +4 more
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