Welcome to the group
Other brand lenses have come a long way in the last number of years , I would
guess that new design lenses from Tamron,Vivitar,tokina are a match for zuiko,
with a few exceptions which I am sure the group will rush to put forward, I
have always liked Tamron stuff myself when I cant afford zuikos.
Good Luck....Paul
Sebastien Roy wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am new to photography and decided to buy an OM2000 as my first
> SLR camera. I tought the readers of this list might be interested
> to know why someone starting from scratch would go for Olympus
> rather than Nikon/Canon/Pentax.
> The other cameras I considered where Nikon FM10, Pentax ZX-M and
> older ones like Nikon EL2 and FG-20 and Pentax K-1000 and ME-Super.
> All these cameras are fully manual, <=$200 body only, <=$300 with a lense.
>
> Here are the features, approximately ordered by importance:
>
> - Spot metering (most important feature, IMHO)
> Only OM2000 has it.
> - Depth of field preview
> - Mirror-lockup
> - Good choice of quality lenses available
> - Fully mechanical (need battery for meter only)
> - Light weight and small size
> - Metal body
> The ZX-M is full plastic. Not great.
> - Multiple exposure
>
> As far as lenses go, the 35-70mm/f3.5-4.8 (sold with the OM2000) seems
> to work very well. Its close focusing hability is very nice. I've put
> two example pictures in
> http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/sebastien/album/om2000.html
>
> This is the only uncertain factor here. I know I will need a portrait
> lense and a wide angle lense sometime in the future. It is my
> impression that Zuiko offers same or better quality/price than
> the best other brands. Am I right? Any suggestion of lenses to get
> or to avoid? and how about the Tamron Adaptall lenses, are do they
> compare?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sebastien
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