9-18 & built-in image stabilization mechanism

[razumoff]

Hi every Oly user,

Did you noticed that:

"No manufacturer has yet released a zoom lens in the super-wide-angle domain that has both a focal distance equivalent to less than 20 mm on a 35-mm camera lens and a built-in image stabilization mechanism"

I didn't, great news for users others than E3/510/520,

Here is the link: http://www.olympus-global.com/en/news/2008a/nr080513zuikoe.cfm

 

[xenon2]

Read rest of text, its mistake.

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[ViTAR]

The sentence "No manufacturer has yet released..." include Olympus too. The whole sentence didn't say that Olympus did manufactured wide lens with IS. It says that "No one did". Next sentence says "However, when used with an Olympus digital SLR camera body with a built-in image stabilization mechanism..." - there it is, the IS is on body

The only concern about 9-18 lens, that it is not designed to screw-in a polarizer or other filter.

 

[Mike_PEAT]

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The only concern about 9-18 lens, that it is not designed to screw-in
a polarizer or other filter.

 

[twonker]

there are a lot of filter system users (Lee, Cokin etc) who would welcome a filter ring.

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[twonker]

from the look of it, it has a 72mm thread.

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[Mike_PEAT]

Did you noticed that:
"No manufacturer has yet released a zoom lens in the super-wide-angle
domain that has both a focal distance equivalent to less than 20 mm
on a 35-mm camera lens and a built-in image stabilization mechanism"

I didn't, great news for users others than E3/510/520,

You must really have the shakes if you need IS for that focal range. Have you ever watched one of those traffic cameras on the news, when it's zoomed in it's really shaky due to the winds buffeting it, but when it zooms out it's almost completely steady, because the wider you go the less impact camera shake has on the captured image. That's more likely the reason no manufacturer brought out an ultra wide with IS (it's not necessary), and Olympus is only using this factoid to say that it can do IS with an ultra wide.

I think of this in the same realm as manufacturers bragging they reduced their startup time by 0.01 seconds.

And for the record, I have used the 7-14mm and 8mm lenses in extremely low light.

 

[Mike_PEAT]

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from the look of it, it has a 72mm thread.

 

[AnandaSim]

the price of a 72mm CIRC PL? A good one?

Shudder!



Doesn't mean the lens won't "hate" filters and things in front or optically vignette...

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[razumoff]

Thanks everybody,

 

[HMi]

You must really have the shakes if you need IS for that focal range.

May I respectfully beg to differ. I've been shooting the 7-14 on both the E-1 and the 510 and my experience is that I can push the lens out to something like 1/5 of a sec on the 510 and perhaps 1/15 on the E-1 with a good chance for success. So to me IS seems to buy me some, perhaps limited though, benefit also when using ultrawide.

On the other hand, when mounted on a tripod, seems the ultra wide is somewhat more susceptible for "false positive" shake if I forget the IS on. When you can hear the IS "whirr" on the tripod you know you will end up with a blurry image .

 

[AlbertSiegel]

Hi every Oly user,

Did you noticed that:
"No manufacturer has yet released a zoom lens in the super-wide-angle
domain that has both a focal distance equivalent to less than 20 mm
on a 35-mm camera lens and a built-in image stabilization mechanism"

I didn't, great news for users others than E3/510/520,

I think they mean built-in to the lens.... at least that's the way I read it. As for IS with a ultra-wide lens, there is the 7-14mm Olympus as well as Pentax and Sony bodies with built-in IS and their ultra-wides.

Olympus marketing is just poor. I'm still bothered when Olympus claims ISO boost as image stabilization on the camera just so they can sell it. They even claim double IS when they actually do install IS into the camera. This is just flat out dishonest and another example of the poor job Olympus marketing does in the United States. Even Phil posted about this issue. I hope Olympus marketing is better in other parts of the world.

 

[Louis_Dobson]

do UWA stuff in low light, for which truly effective IS would be wonderful.
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[photo_owl]

do UWA stuff in low light, for which truly effective IS would be
wonderful.

and the e3's isn't?

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[Louis_Dobson]

That's a different subject...
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[Art_P]

a polarizer on a lens that wide? Think what it would do to the sky.
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[Prognathous]

Sigma 10-20 and 12-24 and Tamron 11-18 are image stabilized when connected to Pentax, Minolta and Sony DSLR's, as do Pentax 12-24 and Sony/Minolta 11-18 (when connected to matching DSLR's).

IS is very useful with UWA lenses when shooting at slow shutter speeds (e.g. 1/4~1/10). I don't know why people have problems admitting that.

Prog.

 

[Chris_in_Osaka]

They seemed to have overlooked the Sony 11-18mm when mounted on a Sony body (body IS).

Or third party lenses (Sigma, Tamron) mounted on Sonys or Pentaxes.

Or perhaps they're taking the Nikon approach to marketing. Remember, Nikon makes the world's smallest DSLR*

• in it's class (Nikon doesn't count 4/3's)

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[AlbertSiegel]

Or perhaps they're taking the Nikon approach to marketing. Remember,
Nikon makes the world's smallest DSLR*

• in it's class (Nikon doesn't count 4/3's)

Yeah... that's very dishonest in my opinion.... Kind of like the worlds fastest AF* (only with two lenses in good light)

 

[Joesiv]

a polarizer on a lens that wide? Think what it would do to the sky.

that's what I was going to say

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