Brian

Many thanks for taking the time to take those shots, most helpful

Phil

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I'm not too keen on OLY designing similar lenses as Panny since we need more and different lenses, but I think they realized, from a market perspective, that a cheaper option to the Panny needed to exist in the market.

Brian,

How quick does this lens focus in comparison to the collapsable zoom? Is it faster than the 4/3 40-150 with the adapter?

Comparable to the Lumix 14-45... very fast, in fact the Pen focuses so fast with the mZD 14-150 and mZD 9-18, I'm happy to shoot with CDAF allocated to the shutter (usually, I have it separated on the AEL/AFL button)

Cheers

Brian

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FWIW: SLRGear.com has posted a technical review of this lens at Olympus Lens: Zooms - Olympus 14-150mm f/4-5.6 ED M.Zuiko Digital (Tested) - SLRgear.com!

I've looked at this several times. The wideangle and middle part of the zoom I can accept, but the long end has some horrible decentering. I think more samples need to get out there to see if this is a QC issue or not. One of Brian's images I think exhibited some corner wierdness..not sure if its from lens decentering or not.

Some more samples from today - especially to answer the question of whether the lens is sharp at full zoom... these images are developed from raw using the free Olympus Viewer 2 converter - no sharpening other than scaling for web using Lightzone.

E-P2 + mZD 14-150mm f4-5.6
1/500s f/7.1 at 150.0mm iso200


E-P2 + mZD 14-150mm f4-5.6
1/640s f/7.1 at 150.0mm iso200


E-P2 + mZD 14-150mm f4-5.6
1/250s f/7.1 at 150.0mm iso200


E-P2 + mZD 14-150mm f4-5.6
1/250s f/7.1 at 150.0mm iso200


E-P2 + mZD 14-150mm f4-5.6
1/200s f/7.1 at 14.0mm iso200


E-P2 + mZD 14-150mm f4-5.6
1/500s f/7.1 at 14.0mm iso200


E-P2 + mZD 14-150mm f4-5.6
1/500s f/7.1 at 14.0mm iso200


E-P2 + mZD 14-150mm f4-5.6
1/400s f/7.1 at 120.0mm iso200


E-P2 + mZD 14-150mm f4-5.6
1/320s f/7.1 at 150.0mm iso200


E-P2 + mZD 14-150mm f4-5.6
1/320s f/7.1 at 150.0mm iso200


Cheers

Brian

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Brian,

Those look pretty good. The 5th image exhibits exhibits some of the problems at the wide end. The top left has some weirdness too it.

Yes, and I made sure I switched off IS this time... I need to do some more shooting at 14mm to see what's happening.

Cheers

Brian

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hello Brian, with this photos olympus will sell lot of lens, jeje