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Is the Panny 14-140 worth $150 more than the Oly 14-150?

Started Dec 5, 2015 | Discussions thread
Frasier Krane Contributing Member • Posts: 510
It's a much better lens IMO...
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It should be noted that I generally don't use these summaries from DxO but I look at the acutance profiles on DxO.

Simply stated, the 14-140 II is better in the center at all focal lengths and blows it away in the corners. Check it out for yourself.

This is really the only superzoom (i.e. in the 10x range), on any system, that doesn't perform like a superzoom. It performs more like the 3x or 4x zoom.

It's really the only one that doesn't lose much performance on the long end.

And the person who stated that this lens is softer on the wide end is either wrong or had a bad copy. We had a post here recently where someone compared it, at 20mm, to the 20mm f/1.7 at f/5.6. No one could spot the difference between them.

And if you look at the DxO acutance for this lens at 20mm, it does perform as well as some primes.

Take it FWIW. It is worth $150 more. This lens is unique.

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