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Olympus 40-150mm f2.8 does Costa Rica

Started Nov 8, 2015 | Discussions thread
tkelly11
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Re: Olympus 40-150mm f2.8 does Costa Rica

Colin K. Work wrote:

Decent pics, but as a 40-150 user, no surprises in your review.

What did surprise me is that you didn't make use of the 1.4 - since you clearly did a fair bit of closeup work, I would have thought this would have been useful, giving you either tighter framing or a more comfortable working distance. But perhaps the loss of a stop was prohibitive in the available light.

Thanks Colin, yeah part of the reason was changing lenses in Costa Rica can be a little challenging and at the start I tried swapping to use the TC but everytime I did something came up that was too close so I got fed up of trying to guess what was going to happen and ended up leaving it. The vast majority of stuff I came across was close enough without. With the possible exception of Sloths and Toucans in distant trees.

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