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Crazy to sell the Olympus 12-40mm?!

Started May 6, 2015 | Discussions thread
Alien from Mars
Alien from Mars Contributing Member • Posts: 580
Re: It's a great lens, but...

Your problem is that you are translating your own vision onto everyone. Everybody's different with different needs.

Fri13 wrote:

The whole point in m4/3 isnt it being small and light, in contrary.

Really? Why are you so sure that this is true for EVERYONE? Is this stated in some official documents?

Its idea is to be smaller and lighter than 135 format with a same field of view and 2-stops benefit for same depth of field.

No. For you - maybe. For many others - not that specific. A lot of people don't care about 135 format or MF or any other format. They want small, light AND good enough IQ AND good enough ergonomics AND many other things. And their desired combination of properties might not be offered by bigger or smaller systems or cameras.

The Olympus PRO line objectives are smaller and lighter than 135 format combos with near same characters.

If you want small and light, stick to smartphone.

"don't tell me what to do... " - you know what follows?

Sorry that you cant get changable objectives or adjust settings so easily and so on, but after all you are after small and light, right?

No. Small and light AND good enough IQ (and that "good enough" really vary for different people) AND good choice of glass AND ... (on and on). So who are you to decide for everyone?

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