I mentioned this is the Olympic thread, but it may get lost there.

I was looking through the G5 photos from the Olympics, and some of the EXIFs are showing that the 35-100 is being used there.

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It's hard to judge of the quality of the lens from just these samples, but it's encouraging that it is in the wild already. Hopefully we can see it soon.

Cheers

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I saw this in the other thread, and I'm really hoping this means it'll be available in the very near future. The 12-35 is a stellar zoom lens... assuming the 35-100 is similar I'd love to have them as a pair - that'd be a dynamic duo of zooms if there ever was one!

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I was actually looking through the photos yesterday, and I noticed 64mm & f/3.5 which I thought was odd. I thought maybe the f/3.5 was an editorial error, but I didn't save the file to look at the EXIF. I guess only the largest images maintain some EXIF, smaller ones don't have any.

It makes sense that they would use the lenses that will soon be launched, I read Canon shooters are using the 200-400 f/4L IS 1.4x which is not yet lauched. I was actually thinking that it's too bad the GH3 isn't announced so Dean Mouhtaropoulos could use that as well. Or maybe was also given a camouflaged GH3 as well, with the sample photos only to surface later.

Edit: Do you see EXIF mentioning the 35-100 lens explicitly? LR shows me unknown lens for all the photos.

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Why is f3.5 odd?

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Probably meant he couldn't figure out a m4/3 native lens that can have the aperture at f3.5 at that focal length....since it doesn't exist yet... With the exception of the unreleased 35-100

Gotcha.

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Because it's not divisible by 2

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Thanks for the heads up. It seems the 35-100 is in final stages of field testing and we will get an availability date at Photokina.

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Hopefully this will ensure that it doesn't have any of the problems the 45-170 and 14-42 X lenses have.

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At the price they're talking about for this lens (last I heard, $1600) and given the quality of the 12-35mm, I would be astonished if the lens turns out to have issues similar to the powerzoom lenses, which are in a completely different league.

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