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

Started Jun 10, 2015 | User reviews thread
Paul Boddie Regular Member • Posts: 193
Re: Is it because I do not like slow telephoto zoom lenses?

bradevans wrote:

Its an interesting thing here...

The OP paid nothing for the lens and doesn't much care for it.

Others have paid $99, $119, $149 and see great value for their investment.

And if you're lucky, you can also pick it up for free when Olympus do their occasional "bonus zoom" promotions. Meanwhile, other people seem to feel it produces reasonable results.

(On rating things, I once read a summary of someone's perverse method of assigning scores to challenges on DPReview, where they first ranked their favourites - best, second best, and so on - and, if I recall correctly, then assigned the highest to lowest ratings to each of them, meaning that their eighth favourite - or whatever - actually got the lowest score. So, where everyone else was thinking that the lowest score meant that a picture was terrible or ineligible, the person in question was dishing it out to potentially reasonable works. I doubt that they saw that their understanding of the system was flawed, but it just goes to show that people happily make up their own rules and logic and apply it to things regardless. Not that the voting advice is particularly prominent, mind you.)

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