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Bye Bye Long Lens

Started Apr 6, 2014 | Discussions
daleeight Veteran Member • Posts: 3,199
Bye Bye Long Lens

If you have the Olympus E-M1 or the E-M5, which of these lenses would you get rid of first, and why that one....?

Olympus Zuiko ED 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 Non-SWD w/ tripod adapter (note, not a Micro, but 4/3, and I have a 4/3 to micro adapter)

Panasonic Lumix G Vario 100-300mm f/4-5.6 OIS micro 4/3 mount

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Dale

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Olympus E-M1 III Nikon Z7 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm F2.8 Macro Olympus 12-40mm F2.8 Pro Olympus 40-150mm F2.8 Pro +6 more
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dougjgreen1 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,068
Answer is different for the E-M1 and E-M5
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daleeight wrote:

If you have the Olympus E-M1 or the E-M5, which of these lenses would you get rid of first, and why that one....?

Olympus Zuiko ED 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 Non-SWD w/ tripod adapter (note, not a Micro, but 4/3, and I have a 4/3 to micro adapter)

Panasonic Lumix G Vario 100-300mm f/4-5.6 OIS micro 4/3 mount

If I had the E-M5, I'd get rid of the 50-200 4/3 lens, because it will focus quite poorly on the E-M5, not nearly so poorly on the E-M1.

If I had the E-M1, I would get rid of the Panasonic 100-300mm lens because it's got a smaller maximum aperture and it's not as good optically as the 50-200

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jimbeaux Contributing Member • Posts: 536
Re: Bye Bye Long Lens

it would be the 50-200. In fact I already did. I gave it to my son along with the E5. Both, especially the combination of both are too big, heavy, bulky and intrusive.

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Olympus E-3 Olympus PEN E-PL5 Olympus E-M1 Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 50mm 1:2.0 Macro Olympus Zuiko Digital 11-22mm 1:2.8-3.5 +5 more
DLBlack Forum Pro • Posts: 15,865
Re: Bye Bye Long Lens
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For the E-M1 I will keep the 50-200 mk1 version. A friend has this lens and I have used it on my E-M1 and it worked great and out performs the 100-300.

For the E-M5 I will keep the 100-300.

Dave
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(unknown member) Contributing Member • Posts: 531
Re: Bye Bye Long Lens
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I'd get neither, as in my view both would be likely to be outperformed both for aperture and optical quality by a manual focus legacy lens, if you can focus it. I have both a Voigtlander Apo-lanthar 180 and a Canon FD 300 4 L, and while slower to focus, both give optically superb results. You can see examples at www.flickr.com/photos/navmannz. I know its an outside of the square suggestion, but I'd suggest its worth considering

John

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