DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Olympus 14-150II: a great travel lens

Started Apr 3, 2015 | Discussions thread
Mark Rosen
Mark Rosen Regular Member • Posts: 190
Re: Olympus 14-150II: a great travel lens

Robert Deutsch wrote:

Mark Rosen wrote:

I have the 14-150 I, which is apparently the same lens, sans weather sealing.

I've read that, too, but this does not agree with the specifications given by Olympus on the getolympus.com web site.

The specs provided by Olympus are:

14-150 (I): 13 elements, 10 groups; closest focus .9m

14-150II: 15 elements, 11 groups; closes focus .5m; ZERO coating of lens elements

So it seems the lenses are NOT the same.

In any case, the lens I have is not soft. I compared it with the Pana 14-42PZ and Pana 45-175, and was prepared to return the 14-150II if it did not match these lenses in IQ, but I found that it was as good or better throughout the range, except at 150, where it was still Ok, and improved somewhat at 140. At 45mm (45-175) and 42mm (14-42PZ) it was actually sharper than these lenses. This part of the focal length range is important to me, so I repeated the test, and again found the 14-150 II to be superior. Maybe I have an ubusually good sample...

Bob

Thanks Bob...

This is good news... I wonder if it is worth an upgrade?

Mark

 Mark Rosen's gear list:Mark Rosen's gear list
Olympus E-M5 II Olympus E-M1 II Sony a7 III Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 9-18mm F4.0-5.6 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm F2.8 Macro +11 more
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow