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

Started Jun 10, 2015 | User reviews thread
tjuster1 Senior Member • Posts: 2,241
Re: Is it because I do not like slow telephoto zoom lenses?
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Thorfinn wrote:

I was part of my fathers heritage. He got it as part of e-PL3 kit. I paid nothing. I do not use it.

The pictures are sharp enough, no reasonable pillow, no fugly bouquet. You get a 300mm compared to 35mm film - amazing and it is cheap.

It is just because it is a 5,6 on four thirds sensor. No indoor available light and a large depth of field. That are the reasons why Olympus makes the 40-150 2.8 PRO (with a totally different price tag). For the rest of us: Save the money, save some more and go for the Olympus 75 1.8.

Why even bother with a hands-on review? If the lens is condemned simply because it's slow, you could have reached that conclusion the instant Olympus announced it. My problem with this "review" is that it's completely worthless: you've added NOTHING to the knowledge base that would help someone decide whether to buy it or not. It's slow, we get it. Everyone KNOWS that.

Is the point of this thread really simply to announce to the world that you don't like slow lenses?

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