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.
snip...
> Here are the features, approximately ordered by importance:
>
> - Spot metering (most important feature, IMHO)
> Only OM2000 has it.
Spot metering was the reason too, why I´m now a Zuikoholic and
Olymaniac. ;-)
> - Depth of field preview
Very handy feature, DOF preview with every camera body, cause every lens
has it. :-)
Later then, I discovered one feature I don´t like to miss, is the
compatibility of system parts.
> 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?
The 100mm Zuikos are very sharp lenses. I had both, the 2,8 is very
small, the 2,0 (expensiv) should be sharper but I didn´t recognized it.
Richard
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