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[url="http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/lens_review/20100608_372784.html"]http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/lens_review/20100608_372784.html[/url]
Quite impressive actually.
Not bad at all. It did strike me though that these images really shows how very limited the DOF possibilities are on 4/3 with anything less than very bright lenses. Nothing surprising in that, admittedly, but it just caught my attention looking at these shots.
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[quote name='Chris F' date='07 June 2010 - 10:22 PM' timestamp='1275942155' post='322']
Not bad at all. It did strike me though that these images really shows how very limited the DOF possibilities are on 4/3 with anything less than very bright lenses. Nothing surprising in that, admittedly, but it just caught my attention looking at these shots.
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Yeah, but that's also true for an APS-C 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 lens.
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[quote name='Klaus' date='07 June 2010 - 09:31 PM' timestamp='1275942698' post='323']
Yeah, but that's also true for an APS-C 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 lens.
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That is true too, but of course an 18-200 f3.5-5.6(Canon/Nikon) has an edge (although not all that big) still on APS-C over a 14-150 f4-5.6 on 4/3rds, where shallow DOF is concerned. About 2/3rds of an f-stop worth.
Not the lenses of choice though, for shallow DOF.
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[quote name='Klaus' date='07 June 2010 - 07:08 PM' timestamp='1275934129' post='320']
[url="http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/lens_review/20100608_372784.html"]http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/lens_review/20100608_372784.html[/url]
Quite impressive actually.
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Some more samples:
[url="http://fourthirds-user.com/2010/06/olympus_mzuiko_14150mm_f456_superzoom_sample_images.php"]http://fourthirds-user.com/2010/06/olympus_mzuiko_14150mm_f456_superzoom_sample_images.php[/url]
At 14mm there is some nice CA to be seen and some softening in the corners. Right now I find it hard to judge whether this is worse or similar to the 14-42 m.Zuiko.
enjoy
[quote name='joachim' date='09 June 2010 - 05:16 PM' timestamp='1276100195' post='391']
Some more samples:
[url="http://fourthirds-user.com/2010/06/olympus_mzuiko_14150mm_f456_superzoom_sample_images.php"]http://fourthirds-user.com/2010/06/olympus_mzuiko_14150mm_f456_superzoom_sample_images.php[/url]
At 14mm there is some nice CA to be seen and some softening in the corners. Right now I find it hard to judge whether this is worse or similar to the 14-42 m.Zuiko.
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Yea I noticed a bit of CA @ 17mm and a touch of purple fringing but not too bad. If this a middle tier lens (olympus has 3 ties but the names for them escape me; 12-60 is middle; kit lenses are bottom and f2 zooms are top).
Hum the long end has a bit of CA and very vulnerable to bokeh ca. Still this seems a nice option; now just need for olympus to introduce the gh1 equiv with olympus goodies (ibis, ...) and new approach to anti-alias filters.