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Telephoto for landscapes - 40-150mm f2.8 or something else?

Started Dec 18, 2017 | Discussions thread
eques Veteran Member • Posts: 4,115
Re: 45-150 Panasonic?
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hindesite wrote:

I'm a bit surprised nobody has mentioned the Lumix 45-150; I have it and the m.Zuiko 40-150 4/5.6 and prefer the Lumix.

Neither is expensive, both are small and light, and you don't need 2.8 for landscape.

I had 2 samples of this lens: they were good enough at medium distances, but utterly unusable near infinity. This spoilt my tele landscape photos of one whole holiday.

The O 40-150 F4-5,6 is much better there.

Peter

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