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Safari advice: Oly 40-150 Pro, Pany 100-400 or Oly 50-200?

Started Nov 28, 2018 | Questions thread
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Olympus ZD 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5
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I owned this lens for several years from 2004 onward. It was a gem on my E-1. In 2018, I have two comments:

  1. The E-1 was a 5Mp camera. Newer cameras are now 16Mp or 20Mp. To be honest, I've not been overly impressed with images made with that lens on the higher MP camera bodies. I'm very willing to be contradicted by current users.
  2. The bokeh on that lens can be extremely busy and distracting. I found, even when using my low Mp E-1, that I had to be careful with the backgrounds if I did not want to distract from the main subject, mainly when doing portraiture.

Jim Pilcher
Summit County, Colorado, USA
Life is good in the woods

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