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Olympus m43 Lens Recommendation


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<p>I have a couple of Olympus m43 bodies and I am looking to expanding my walk around lenses. I have a couple of kit lenses (decent image quality but suspect build quality). I am looking for a somewhat longer zoom, maybe to about 135mm. Not looking for pro lenses but something better than kit quality. What about Panasonic? Thanks for any help.</p>
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<p>I don't think there's anything sitting between the "kit" zooms and the pro lenses. I have a Lumix 35-100mm f4-5.6 zoom which I find to be excellent. Several reviews support this and say it's only the smaller aperture that differentiates it from the pro lenses. I think 100mm is about as long as you want to go for walk around functionality: beyond that you're looking at tripod support for good sharp shots.</p>
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The Olympus 40-150 f5.6 is a decent little lens, which doesn't cost much and weighs about 6 oz. Its sharp to

about 100m and ok beyond that, typical of consumer grade telezooms. Build quality is fine, but all plastic,

similar to the more recent kit lenses. The Panasonic 45-175mm and 45-150mm are suppose to be good,

perhaps better than the little Oly lens, but somewhat more expensive. The Oly 40-150 f2.8 is very good, but

large, heavy and expensive.

 

I don't agree that you need a tripod for anything beyond 100mm, especially with good image stabilization.

Here is an image from my 40-150mm, at 150mm, f5.6, and 1/320. I could have used a slower shutter speed

but find that animals are usually twitchy and need a higher shutter speed to stop motion:<div>00eIN6-567114684.thumb.jpg.45093a713ab7dadb8024cd9425686e2a.jpg</div>

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<p>"...I am looking to expanding my walk around lenses."</p>

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<p>Here are the "walk around" lenses I use with my Olympus bodies:</p>

<p>Panasonic 14mm f/2.5<br>

Olympus 17mm f/2.8<br>

Panasonic 20mm f/1.7<br>

Olympus 45mm f/1.8<br>

Olympus 14-41mm f/3.5 - f/5.6<br>

Panasonic 45-200mm f/4 - f/5.6</p>

<p>If I need anything longer than 200mm, I use adapted Nikon lenses.</p>

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<p>Re the image stabilization on the 35-100, this is not switchable on the lens (on Panny cameras you do it within the menus). I have used this lens on the Oly E-PL3 both with and without in-camera stabilization and it works fine with both, so you won't have any problems.</p>
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<p>An option is to use a zoom by some other brand and use an adapter. For example, a Tamron 35-80/2.8 SP is a super sharp zoom, and the crop on the M 4/3 will show you a 70-160 perspective. This is a quite inexpensive option. I have used an Angenieux 70-210 zoom on my E-P2 with excellent results that are very sharp and beautiful. </p>
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<p>For a zoom I think the zuiko 40-150 f5.6 it is ok.<br /> Another interesting les is The m43 Rokinon or Samyang 7.5mm fisheye is an excellent and cheap lens. It is manual focus, but focused at hyperfocal distance at f 5,6. or any aperture is always in focus.<br /> With a Photoshop plugin like Hemi a rectilinear look it is possible when fisheye distortion is not desired.<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Hot/201601-Varias/i-XVGPctM/1/700x600/201601041_Templo_Bahai.4-L.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="467" /></p>

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