Is it because I do not like slow telephoto zoom lenses?

Martin Ocando wrote:

I'd think you review is not very fair with the 40-150mm. You can't compare a premium lens like the 75mm with one of the less expensive lenses in Olympus lineup.

The stars are not a "performace for money". The price tag is quite known. The performance for money division can be done by everybody.

So the scale is:

*** for something innovative, extraordinary, more than good craftmenship - let us say the e-p1, the Bessa III, or talking lenses: a summicron or a noctilux

**** is for something of a very decent craftsmenship - like a Zuiko 75 1.8; a Zeiss T*, a Voigtländer, The Olympus 40-150 is made out of plastics,

*** is for something worth to spend money on. I own the Oly 40-150 for 1 year now.. I did not spend money on it. I yust made som sample shots and sorted it in category III (Cat 1: bag, Cat 2: living home, Cat 3: storage room)

** is nice to own

* is "passed"

Less is fail - e.g. the Oly body cap lens.

[...] Unless you are rich, and this conversation have no meaning at all.

No I am not rich - I use m4/3 not Leica M. But there is a difference and it would not be fair tagging 4 for this lens and the same for the PRO version. What would be the meaning of spending all the money on a PRO lens?

Saying that investing on the 40-150 you should save for the 75, is like saying don't get that toyota corolla, instead save for an Aston Martin.

The 75 1.8 isn't that expensive here in Europe. As you are in british cars: Go for a Caterham. Simple and without compromises: No ABS, ESP, stereo, aircon, doors- just your right foot. Damn I have 2 girls, so i have to make compromises. No Caterham, nor Leica for Thorfinn

m4/3 is a very very good compromise. The engineers of the Pen were ingenious - look at my stars on the e-p1. But 4/3 is a compromise. Moving up the sensor/film scale, you get more possibilities with 24*36 or a Leica S or Hasselblad, a Phase One - film/sensor size matters!

Have you ever made flash pictures with a leaf shutter lens? After I did, I never liked to make a flash picture with curtain shutter again.

As a boy I was used to Practica and Zeiss Jena Lenses. One day I was allowed to use my friends Yashica with his fathers Zeiss T* Lenses (under daddys careful supervision). It was like looking in another world. 5 years later using the Hasselblad 500 was stepping in another world.

The Olympus 40-150 keeps you in the world of a kit lens. It just makes more zoom. one last time back to cars: The Oly 40-150 is no car, it is just a the other horse.