Oly 100-400mm vs. Pana 100-400mm - quick and dirty sharpness comparison

Started Aug 27, 2020 | Discussions thread
Marko_Finland
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Re: Oly 100-400mm vs. Pana 100-400mm - quick and dirty sharpness comparison
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alcelc wrote:

The weaker Panny performance from a few early reviews I came across, were made on Oly bodies mostly. It might be one of the reason led to not optimal result from the Panny version.

My thinking was that it might also be copy variation related. In the comparisons that I saw earlier, the Oly lenses were provided by Olympus as review samples and the Pana lenses were rented or a loan from a shop.

I'm inclined to think that review samples in general might go through some "vetting" before sending out to reviewers and may not represent random samples with typical production variation. The Pana lenses again were effectively randomly selected. I know from my own experience that there can be quite some variation in these Pana's on sharpness.

Marko

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