Excellent optical lens, minor other complaints

TheBlitz wrote:

This lens is excellent in terms of feeling and delivery but to be shipped without lenshood for that big amount of money is well, too cheap. I also believe it deserves to be weather sealed.

Hardly real complaints.

A Matin lenshood added is not expensive and certainly as good if not better than oem.  The Matin makes an inexpensive superior replacement for the supplied lens hood on the quite expensive Nocticron for example. I fitted one on my Olympus 75/1.8 with some relish as I knew from experience that it would not only be good, but has its on built in reversable bayonet mount system.

Olympus costing process of providing an oem lenshood would certainly add a reasonable cost to the lens.

The weather sealing is a moot point.  Those that really need it do in fact really need it - but again the cost and weight has to be considered.  What might be a neat, quite compact, and very versatile lens could easily be larger, slower and more costly to make and sell and maybe as much of a disadvantage to many more than full weather sealing might attract.

However it is very good and useful. Coming from full frame I like to be able to shoot with a shallow depth of field and this lens will allow just that. Good for portraits but be ready to stand 10-15 meters from your subject.

I would have reviewed 5/5 if it wasn't for the two design complaints mentioned above. However you could argue I knew these before I bought it but it I believe it to be substantial criticism.

Yes it is one of the most desirable lenses made for the M4/3 format and I don't see any deficiencies from my point of view - it gets 5/5 from me.

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FrankS009 wrote:

Is the 75mm as sharp as the Panasonic 35-100 cropped to a 100 fl equivalence?

It is pretty sharp enough for me but I am not into direct comparing.

Have I some favourites out of a good basket of M4/3 oem lenses?  Yep - the Panasonic 15/1.7, Nocticron 42.5/1.2 and Olympus 75/1.8.

... and yes the Pansonic 35-100mm f2.8 is a great lens as well, but it is f2.8 not f1.8 and all the optical stabilisation in the world does not completely compete with a lighter weight, truly sharp, fast lens.  Not that the 35-100 is particularly heavy for what it is.

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