What are your favorite lenses for 4/3?

<p>Hi guys (and gals too :-)), what are your favorite lenses for your 4/3 system?<br>

I will start with myself. My favorite lenses so far are the 11-22mm f/2.8-3.5 and the 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 SWD. I love the 50mm f/2 too. In fact, most lenses in my arsenal are pretty good.<br>

The only one I feel that does not live up to the expectation is the Panasonic Leica D Summilux 25mm f/1.4. I don't think it deserves the money I paid for and I wonder why it receives a unanimous praise from other users. I mean the bokeh is not great. I don't see it is sharper than my other Olympus high grade lenses. I keep wondering to myself, where is the Leica quality aside from the build quality?</p>

<p>LOL ... The Summilux-D 25mm f/1.4 ASPH is one of my favorites. Matter of fact, if I could only have one FourThirds lens, it's the one I'd keep. Goes to show you how different opinions can be. ;-)</p>

<p>My lens kit for the SLRs is comprised of the 11-22/2.8-3.5, 25/2.8, 25/1.4, 35/3.5, 50/2 and EC14. My lens kit for the Micro-FourThirds body is comprised of Cosmicar 12.5/1.4, Lumix G 20/1.7, Konica 40/1.8 and Olympus Pen F 70/2 lenses ... and it uses the SLR lenses too. </p>

<p>If I want to call anything 'favorite', the Summilux is number one ... but they're all keepers to me. </p>

<p>It takes all kinds to make a world. Since I got the ED 12-60 it has about covered the whole range of subjects for my world . I have the 50-200 on order so the two will do me for a while. I have not used my 70-300 mm as much as I expected... I use the 50mm F 2 with the EC 14 for some jobs. Suggestion, Lihong. Just sell or offload what you don' t like and don't use, and then be happy again,someone will smile on your trade .. :-) good luck, gs</p>

<p>My personal fav is my Zuiko 35mm f3.5 macro, it stays on my E520 most of the time because it covers most of the subjects I want to take, even just general photography. I also have the 14-42 and the 40-150 which comes in handy as a mid-range zoom.</p>

<p>I use the ZD 14-54 (first version) when AF is needed, and for wider angles. My favorites are Leica-R lenses, used with adapters, and the most used is the Leica Elmarit-R 60/2.8 Macro.</p>

<p>I like the 14-42 mm 1:35-5.6 and 50 mm 2.o Macro. Tom</p>

<p>Maybe lens selection is about where you live...<br>

Me? It's the great outdoors, where the best landscape vistas are way >>>> over >>>> yonder, and you really can see the Deer and Antelope frolicking and a BIG sun is as common as... great sundowns.<br>

I don't do macros of bugs or lcihen...or "street scenes".<br>

Big telephoto lenses (300mm, 400mm, 350mm (LIECA R), 500mm are all my affectations for aircraft, big suns, the moon, home plate for my Pentax (120-600mm) and EOS SLRs.</p>

<p>Maybe lens selection is about where you live...<br>

Me? It's the great outdoors, where the best landscape vistas are way >>>> over >>>> yonder, and you really can see the Deer and Antelope frolicking and a BIG sun is as common as... great sundowns.<br>

I don't do macros of bugs or lcihen...or "street scenes".<br>

Big telephoto lenses (300mm, 400mm, 350mm (LIECA R), 500mm are all my affectations for aircraft, big suns, the moon, home plate for my Pentax (120-600mm) and EOS SLRs.</p>

<p>7-14mm f4<br>

14-50mm Vario-Elmarit f2.8 this is my "always on the camera" lens.</p>

<p>OM Zuiko 28mm f2.0 - It lives on my camera only inviting guests occasionally.</p>

<p>Absolutely the 35-100 F/2. Portraits and indoor sports are what it does best, but I only take it off when I need a wider view or more magnification. When I do I use the 9-18mm or the 50-200mm Zuiko lenses.<br>

I also use the 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 for normal shots or where I don't want the size of the 35-100.</p>

<p>The 9-18 f4-5.6 and 50-200 f2.8-3.5 SWD is my favorite two lens combination right now. I also keep the 25mm f2.8 pancake in the bag because it's no weight or space cost at all and is sort-of a bridge between the other two.</p>

<p>I have a 12-60 f2.8-4 that for the moment I am less enamored with because the aperture mechanism locked up 18 months after buying it, which meant it was out-of-warranty since Olympus only sells their lenses with a one-year warranty. Olympus fixed it for the paltry sum of $292USD(!), but since getting it back last week I think I have determined the aperture mechanism is not calibrated correctly because everything I have shot with it using both an E620 and E30 has been somewhere around 1/2 to 1 stop underexposed, so it has to go back to Olympus to be checked again....</p>

<p>2.8/25, 4-5.6/9-18, 2/50 These are my biggest favourites, in this order. After that, 4-5.6/70-300 and 2/150. I wish Olympus made a fairly fast fixed wideangle, 2.8/12.</p>

<p>Generally my use is for the E-3 is:</p>

<ul>

<li>14-54mm, typically 50-60%</li>

<li>50-200mm, typically 25% (with/without the EC-14)</li>

<li>50mm, typically 10%</li>

<li>11-22mm, typically 5% (I'm not that drawn to wide angle, though when I rented the 9-18mm, it did allow me to get a few shots that I like)</li>

</ul>

<p>The following lenses tend to be used less often in specific circumstances:</p>

<ul>

<li>Sigma 30mm (low light, no flash shots)</li>

<li>Olympus 70-300mm (typically with EC-14 for the ultra long range)</li>

<li>Olympus 40-150mm mark 2 (mostly I carry this because it is small in case I need the telephoto, but often don't use it)</li>

<li>Olympus 14-42mm (kit lens from my E-510, but the E-510 is sold now)</li>

</ul>

<p>On my E-P2 it is mostly the m14-42mm lens, with the 14-54mm or 50mm being the 2nd and 3rd choices.</p>

<p>I'm most fond of my Olympus OM 50mm f/1.8 used from wide open to maybe f/4 for people shooting followed closely by an ancient OM mount 400mm preset that is just plain fun to use! Both require an adapter and work only manually, but that doesn't bother me much since I'm an old guy who is most used to manual cameras!</p>

<p>Cannot decide. My favorite photos with my G1 so far were taken with a Leica 50mm Lux (preasph), which functioned like a 100mm lens at 4/3. I used it in Machu Picchu around my neck with a Leica M8 and 35mm Lux a la 50mm. The G1 is light enough with the M8 that it didn't bother me to have two cameras around my neck at the same time. I took great "environmental portraits" of some of the others in our group while I was trying to take the ultimate picture of Machu Picchu that no one else ever took. That's like trying to do that for the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I had it, but the wrong angle and it disappeared. At the top of the East Gate with a very small Machu Picchu down below and out of focus, a small beautiful bird suddenly landed on the edge of the "cliff." I had about 3 seconds to take the photo. No one would ever have taken such a beautiful photo before or after unless they brought along a stuffed bird. But alas, the silly bird landed just a wee bit too much to the right of me to get Machu Picchu in the background. So, it's just a silly photo of a bird. Pretty, I suppose.</p><div></div>