Zoom Rotation Direction - Panny vs Oly

[rrr_hhh]

s_grins wrote:

rrr_hhh wrote:

paulrfarrington wrote:

I hadn't even considered that until today because my only Olympus lens is the 45mm. I was almost convinced anyway, but now I'm certain that my next lens, a medium telephoto, will be a Panasonic zoom.

I was a Nikon user before m4/3 too, and using my sister's Canon used to drive me insane because I was forever zooming out when I wanted to zoom in and vice versa.

It does seem odd that is isn't standardised across the format. I suppose each company would have insisted that their way was the best!

Well, Olympus is designing lenses since much longer than Panasonic, so I guess that this as a Panasonic decision to design their zooms differently.

 

[ryan2007]

DeepBlue2 wrote:

Ok, so I got the OM-D for Christmas with the 14-42 and 40-150. Love the camera and the lenses, but the zoom rotation direction is opposite from Nikon. That is, you turn the barrel in the opposite direction to increase/decrease the focal length. This is mildly annoying, but I figured I'd get used to it with time. It may take a while to overcome decades of habit, but so be it.

Now, I get the Panasonic 12-35 and I see that it uses the same rotation direction as Nikon. What? There is no standard on this for m43? Is Olympus the only company that makes zoom lenses that rotate this way?

I think this will drive me crazy in time. I may stick with Panasonic zooms just for this reason. I did a quick search using the terms "zoom rotation" and didn't see any threads about this. Am I the only one that finds this lack of standardization odd?

 

[offtheback]

Take it as " well known issue" . It is funny and not deadly

 

[DeepBlue2]

Well, after 5 years of using Olympus cameras (since the original post), I’ve adapted to the system. However, even after this length of time I still feel more comfortable with the Nikon/Panasonic zoom rotation.

 

[Jouko]

I usually solve this problem by looking through the finder to focus and compose...

Cheers!


Jouko
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[Ken Croft]

So don't ever buy the one and only Tamron mft lens, the 14-150mm, because not only does the zoom rotate opposite to Olympus, but it is at the wrong end of the lerns! The focus ring is nearer to the camera than the zoom ring. How strange is that.

I sold mine!


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