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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
alcelc
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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

JohnLock wrote:

I presently have 2 EM10s (also EM1) an Olympus 14-150 and Tamron 14-150. I've also had 2 different copies of the Panasonic 14-140 and both suffered from significant shutter shock on either EM10 or EM1. I was quite disappointed in this as I liked the handling and build quality of the 14-140. On one shoot w/ the 1st 14-140, out of about 400-500 photos, way more than 1/2 showed significant shutter shock-- same w/ the 2nd. I sold both, hopefully to Panasonic owners. It's a lens I wanted to like but in the 1/30 to 1/500 sec range (an important SS range IMO) neither was even close to acceptable-- that includes both copies.

I'd bought 14-140 MII a week ago and the following were tested shots on GF3, that aged sensor body. No SS was observed:

They were shot by my wife using 1/60" and 1/100" but didn't look any soft to me. Indeed, I rated sharpness of the lens close to that of 14-45 and better than Panny's 14-42 MI. Would you be suffered from sample variation since EM10 should be a higher quality gear.

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