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Tamron 14-150mm f/3.5-5.6 vs Panasonic 14-140mm f/3.5-5.6 Power OIS on E-M10

Started Oct 4, 2014 | Discussions thread
bs1946
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Re: Tamron 14-150mm f/3.5-5.6 vs Panasonic 14-140mm f/3.5-5.6 Power OIS on E-M10

yycdave wrote:

Just out of curiosity is there any reason you're not looking at the Oly 14-150? I use it on my E-M10 and find it to be a great walk around lens. It's not as sharp as the primes or my 4/3 14-54 but it's pretty good to get the shot you may not otherwise get without the right lens, i.e. it's very versatile and does what it's designed to do well.

Oh, and if you're okay with rexurbs it's in the Get Olympus store right now for $399.

I was able to find a lot more feedback and reviews on the Olympus 14-140mm and more than half of it was negative. If you look at the specs, it's not much different than the other two but a lot of the owner comments and a couple of reviews implied that the performance was mediocre, the build quality was poor and mostly made of cheap plastic, and the price was too high for what you get. After tomorrow, when the latest Olympus sale ends, it goes back to being a $600 lens. So I scratched it off the list.

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