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Crazy to sell the Olympus 12-40mm?!

Started May 6, 2015 | Discussions thread
Hithertoo Senior Member • Posts: 1,841
Re: Crazy to sell the Olympus 12-40mm?!
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tgutgu wrote:

The Image quality of the O 2.8/12-40mm is mostly better than the primes in its range, so I would not consider selling it. Especially compared to any of the super zooms, the IQ extraordinary. Therefore I switched from a one walk around super zoom strategy to a two zoom strategy with better range and much better IQ.

As such my most favorite setup is currently the combination O 2.8/12-40mm plus P 45-175mm.

Maybe, but this comment is rather facile in nature... There is nothing inherently wrong with most of the primes in terms of image quality except for the Olympus 17mm pancake and the primes by and large are 1 to 1.5 stops faster in terms of light gather and depth of field.

The 12-40 F/1.28 can't do F/1.7 and so it comes up short for a lot of users. You can stop down a lens, but you can't stop a lens up.

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 9-18mm F4.0-5.6 Panasonic Lumix G 20mm F1.7 ASPH Panasonic Lumix G Vario 100-300mm F4-5.6 OIS Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 II R +7 more
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