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Sharpest 40-45mm landscape lens

Started Apr 7, 2015 | Discussions thread
secretworld Senior Member • Posts: 1,734
Re: OOPS! You are right.

Betarover wrote:

Here is the corrected comparison. Thanks for noticing my mistake. My points seem still valid: The Olympus 45mm is astonishing for certain applications, but for landscape photography at F5.6 and F8:

1: The lower cost Oly 40-150mm lens is really sharp at 40mm and the $350 Oly 45mm seems to offer no advantage over it while having the disadvantage of not being able to zoom a bit to get a more perfect composition, and

2: My Panasonic 14-45mm, which was very highly touted on this forum 3 years ago by enthusiastic posters, is not as sharp as the Oly 40-150mm.

I do not know how reliable these slrgear.com charts are.

I had all three lenses (now sold the 40-150 for the 45-150 for OIS).

If you look here  you see very different results for the 40-150 at 40mm, more on par with my results and I tested a lot.

The 14-45   is obviously better in this test especially at f8 and result confirmed it here. The 45mm f1.8 is even a tad sharper here, which gives very nice results with landscapes.

The 40-150 was the only lens that didn't meet the expectations created by SLRgear for me.

My 45-150, which I have now is a little less sharp then the 14-45 and 45mm at 45mm does perform pretty nice at all focal lengths. My 40-150 was really good at 70mm but not at 40 and above 80mm had terrible shutter shock.

Did you test your 14-45 against your 40-150????

Cheers

Vincent

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