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It is the lens that fits the system perfectly - tiny, light and decent quality. And looks retro.

Because that is how technology works. It takes time to develop a new technology and make it ready for use in a consumer product. During that time other, temporary solutions are used until the new ...

This is not entirely true. :P Eggs can withstand dropping on grass from a higher distance.

It's also very important for legacy lenses that are slow to focus. I use the 50-200 legacy in MF but use the button to prefocus. That way I can take a series of pictures without waiting for the ...

Keep in mind grips adds weight and bulk. Unless you have something without any grip (like Pen F) I wouldn't even consider it. Even on Pen F I rarely attach the grip since it makes the body large ...

How about IS? The IS with 12-100 is stellar.

Can't agree on that part. It works fine even on E-PL bodies. Front heavy is not a problem - on small bodies you want to hold the lens with your left hand when shooting anyway.

It doesn't matter that much. I used PL100-400 on E-PL5 and it was sharp wide open. Their copy is defective.

Your copy must have been defective. My PL100-400 was sharp enough wide open while it still worked. Stopping down to f10 to get a sharp image is definitely not a normal thing with this lens.

Weight and size. My back is not what it used to be so I minimize the weight of my gear as much as possible. My phone is close to the quality I deem acceptable which makes taking any gear with me ...

They are just all manual focus but they show that a small and great 20mm f1 is possible.

The thing with IBIS and OIS is that it rewards everyone, no matter what technique they use. If you are good at handholding shots and can get to 1/6s without IS you might get to 2s with it. If you ...

There is Laowa 9mm f2.8.

I use the non-SWD 50-200 with Pen F. Maybe my method of using it will help: - I have the camera in MF mode, - I have a button dedicated for AF prefocusing and use it to get closer to the focus ...

People get twisted over this not because you need the best gear but because you are wasting image quality using the built in interpolation - just shoot normally and crop it on a PC, you can then ...

Because both have PDAF. On CDAF only bodies 50-200 is painfully slow (and in my case misses focus quite often) - I use it mostly in MF mode. For that I recommend having a button for pre-focusing ...

Cropping will always work better than a built-in digital teleconverter. You can even use AI upscaling afterwards which will be superior to the in-camera upscaling the digital teleconverter does.

With CDAF the lens is only usable as a manual focus lens in my opinion. It is great when you configure it correctly (I have a button to prefocus using AF - if there is time - and then use MF for ...

If you don't shoot quick action consider the non-SWD version - they are even cheaper, they are brighter (f2.9 at 100mm!) and less prone to problems (the SWD motor sometimes breaks in the SWD version).

That is the exact same way my 100-400 broke, also at 275. Panasonic refused to even look at it back then. It is still gathering dust in some drawer. Shame, I really liked that lens.