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The Superzoom which actually DOES it

Started Sep 6, 2014 | User reviews thread
Bobby Rue Goldberg Regular Member • Posts: 458
Remarkably sharp...
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AdamT wrote:

DISCLAIMER .. These are just Test shots , not designed to have any artistic quality or anything, taken just to see how the lens fares in the field.

All shot on the EM5 casually pointing the thing around on walkabout with the lens set to F5.6 (so the long end is wideopen) and all are full size so click on Original size to pixelpeep . obviously take DOF, Atmospherics etc into account with the 140mm ones and stuff in the distance at 14mm , also that they were shot on an Oly camera (UV and all that) ..

Distortion correction was switched off in the RAW converter so you can see what the lens is really doing (about a 25/26mm FOV at 14mm actually)

PLEASE Look on the Gallery page - the Forum Viewer (just clicking on the image) mushifies the image , it`s a LOT clearer by clicking Gallery link under the pic and then on Original size

These may get removed months down the line if my gallery gets tight on space

14mm standard type scene

140mm F5.6 portrait type shot

this thing gets close - 140nmm F5.6

Standard type landscape - 14mm F5,.6

Now zoomed in at 140mm F5.6 (the trees are way in front so are OOF)

This lens is remarkably sharp at 14mm and 140mm, and presumably at all focal lengths in between. Excellent pixel level detail here, bordering on prime-like.

Quite an amazing achievement for a 10x lens.

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