01-31-2018, 04:05 PM
Quote:..., but to attract the selfie crowd: with this lens you can capture more people while doing a selfie given it's a wider lens. This selfie trend is truly pathetic.
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I don't understand the logic that if it's a power zoom it can be made smaller. If anything it should be the opposite: one has to add a motor for the zoom itself on top of the existing one for AF.
Olympus features several manually collapsible lenses which are very small (UWA 9-18 and kit lenses). No need for powerzoom.
Pathetic with a tendency to get pathological. Sociological that trend is quite interesting, we are developing acting skills and depend very much on how others see ourselves.
As for the rest of it: A mechanically collapsing zoom lens is a more challenging device (in terms of tolerances and precision) than one which doesn't collapse and uses plastic rails and a cheap motordive - in a way, my G11 also has plastic rails and cheap drive, but it actually is collapsing it's lens.