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What lenses do we need?

Started Jun 4, 2014 | Polls thread
aliasfox Senior Member • Posts: 1,375
Re: What lenses do we need?

Lenses I'd like to see:

- Cheaper WA zoom. The 12-32 actually comes pretty close, but I wouldn't mind if it were a little wider, a little less long, and maybe a bit faster. Pancake size is great, but if you could fit it in the size of a Panny 14-42 II, that'd be fine too. The Oly 9-18 is quite expensive.

- Mid-price WA prime (with autofocus). That 12mm f/2.0 sounds like a great lens for indoor low light. Too bad I can't justify $800 (new) or $550 (used) for one.

- Mid-grade zoom. I run a 14-54 II, but it's gigantic and the focusing lags behind my other lenses. Nowhere close to unusably slow, but definitely behind any other lens I have.

- I'd like an update to the 14/2.5 and the 20/1.7.  For the 14mm, a bit sharper (and no CA on Oly) would be great, a bit brighter while maintaining the size would be phenomenal (not likely, with the 15/1.7 coming on the market though). The 20mm just needs its niggling issues resolved (slow AF, potential for banding). Get both of these out with street prices of $200-300 and m4/3 suddenly has excellent wide and normal budget primes, rather than simply 'very good, but with caveats.'

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Olympus XZ-1 Olympus PEN E-PM2 Olympus E-M1 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM5 Olympus E-M5 II +17 more
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