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Olympus 4/3 mount 50 f/2 - worth it?

Started Jan 24, 2018 | Discussions thread
zuikowesty
zuikowesty Veteran Member • Posts: 4,158
Re: Olympus 4/3 mount 50 f/2 - worth it?

Skeeterbytes wrote:

aliasfox wrote:

When you say that it focuses slowly, would you be able to compare it against something? I know it won't be as fast as the 45/1.8, but how's the focus compare to the 50-200 SWD, whose biggest fault is re-acquiring focus when you drift off target.

Much slower focusing than any SWD lens and prone to excursions out to infinity and then back which, because it's a macro takes awhile. It and the Zuiko 35/3.5 macro are perhaps the slowest of 4/3 lenses.

On anything but the E-M1s, it makes the Pany 20/1.7 seem like lightning. On the E-M1s, it is about the same as the 20/1.7, or maybe still a bit slower. Basically a MF lens unless you have an E-M1 or E-M1ii. And in MF mode, the ring needs to be spun quite a lot to rack from near to far. It also doesn't retract to infinity on its own, which can be annoying if you leave it in MF mode. I just checked my LR catalog, and I've only taken about 400 images with it in a year, compared with > 5k each from my 12-40 and 7-14.

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