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I've had two (sold first and regretted it). Both were fine. Not quite as bitingly sharp as some other lenses in the system but way more than adequate. This one at f2.8: Last light on the Thames

I've looked at the RX1Rii lots of times.  It looks an appealing camera - but the lack of any sort of image stabilisation with a 42Mp sensor means that pixel peekers will likely get frustrated.  ...

It sounds like you already have the camera? Is that right?  If so, then you are best placed to make a call for how you use it. For me, I used to run both a Pen-F and E-M10ii concurrently and I'd ...

I just sold my 7-14, replacing it with the 8-18. In my view the 8-18 is a better lens. The 7-14 is no slouch, but the 8-18 is just that bit sharper, just that little better micro contrast. It's ...

Well, I hardly wrote an essay and as someone who has owned both and used them on the same camera I thought my comments might be helpful. Silly me. Why is DPR always so hostile?

I owned the 50-200 non-SWD for a couple of years, using it first on an E-M1 and then on an E-M1ii.  I recently replaced it with the 40-150 + TC.  My thoughts: - AF is significantly better on the 40-150

Great shot - made me smile :-)

I do a lot of landscape photography, often with a 10-stop ND and still find that I can get way more than acceptable images with m43.  Pulling shadows of course is not as easy, but OTOH, there are ...

For me, I wouldn't want (and don't really need) a lens longer than 100mm when travelling.  The 100-400 is a specialist lens IMHO that I wouldn't want to be dragging it around when travelling ...

Well, I dunno. I'm a stills photographer only and run m43 (Oly) out of choice. I tried the A7rii (twice) and I found that whilst it offered improved IQ in general, the improvement wasn't big ...

Thanks for posting. Some great images there and a good advertisement for the lens. I'm trying to resist...

Thank you for the compliments! - much appreciated.

I ran a Sony RX100 iii and was very happy with its IQ.  It compared very well with m43, dropping behind only at ISO 800 and above.  The lens was very good too.  However, its handling was badly ...

Yeah - the Pen F CAF is a train wreck. Oddly, it's worse than every other recent Olympus camera. I think the problem is related to the move to the 20Mp sensor. SAF is also worse to some degree - ...

That's a good post Dan and I enjoyed reading your blog post too. I've had my own frustrations with the 35mm eff FL in m43 and in particular with the 17/1.8. It was the first lens I bought for m43 ...

Ha - actually, I liked the lens a lot and often regret selling it.  I just found MF, manual aperture and lack of EXIF somewhat frustrating.  IQ was very good though.  I loved the sunstars at f11! I ...

Can you give an example of the "image artefacts" that you mention?  I've shot m43 since 2013 after swapping from Canon FF (5Dii) and I honestly can't say I've noticed much of a deterioration in IQ ...

I owned the CV 17.5 f0.95 in order to get slim DOF at this AoV.  It only half worked.  If you really want to do environmental full or half-body portraits at 35mm eff FL, then you're probably best ...

Precisely - I do pretty much the same. Big bag with E-M1ii and 8-18, 12-100 and 8mm FE. Small bag with Pen-F and just three primes - 12, 17 & 45. Nice kit. Sure zooms are nice - the IQ is pretty ...

It's definitely heat haze. You don't necessarily need high temperatures - just enough warming of the ground by the sun and it'll kick off convection. What latitude are you and what time was it? ...