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Newbie Olympus Lenses

Started Jan 24, 2017 | Discussions thread
OP Sami k Junior Member • Posts: 39
Re: Newbie Olympus Lenses

Astrotripper wrote:

Welcome to the gear-head pit

First misunderstanding. Micro 4/3 does not automatically mean smaller and lighter. Evidence number one: http://j.mp/2jOAflT

The Olympus kit is actually the biggest and heaviest when compared to entry level DSLRs (and much, much more expensive). It is going to smoke those DSLRs in every possible way of course. But it's not going to be any smaller or lighter.

Just to put a bit of perspective into that picture, MFT kit can be really small: http://j.mp/2jOwAo8

12-100 will be perfect I think. There's enough images online from it now to say without any doubts that image quality it offers is excellent and it's not really any compromise in this regard. And 6.5 stop of stabilization with Sync-IS means that f/4 will not be a problem for landscapes even when light is not perfect. You'll probably be shooting it at f/5.6 most of the time.

300mm? Not for landscapes I presume?

I meant smaller and lighter compared to the higher end dslr, with the miciro43 I will have a quality close to the higher end dslr with the same size and weight of my current entry level setup

the 300 is for wildlife, not buying it right away, jst trying to think ahead

thanks for your feedback

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