> I would have to side with Giles. I have long been convinced that Oly and
> any other quality lens maker could build lenses with more manufacturing
> consistency and quality control than Modern or Pop Photo could EVER muster
> in their lens tests.
>
I can believe that.
> When you would see later tests of a lens because it
> was attached to a new test camera, you would frequently see HUGE
> differences in the findings. After a while one of them, Modern, I think
> stopped retesting and just quoted the earlier test. You could tell from
> the serial numbers quoted in the article. I could never tell whether they
> just were preserving their staff resources in not retesting a newer
> version
> of the same lens or they were just tired of reader flack on the
> inconsistency. And I admit I will still look at a test. Hopeless I guess.
>
So how do you decide to buy lens A or lens B ?
...Wayne
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