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> From: Ulf Westerberg <ulf.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Zuiko 100-200/f5
> Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 10:20 PM
>
> I myself quoted a test in swedish photo-mag on this lens:
> >This lens was tested in a swedish photo-mag in the early 80's. It got
VERY
> >good reviews. A quote: "This lens delivers absolutely top-class images".
>
> Marco then wrote:
> >The 85-250 is a high quality pro-lens that was sold for $1.000 while the
> >100-200 was intended as an amateur lens.
>
> The 85-250/f5 was also tested in the same test. While getting good
reviews
> it was NOT considered as tack-sharp as the 100-200/f5, a little soft at
the
> 85 mm setting.
>
I have different experience on the 85mm end of my 85-250, it is razor-sharp
from edge to edge at wide open. Its resolution is higher then my 85/2 at
F4.
C.H.Ling
> The 85-250 certainly was aimed at the pro/advanced amateur market, as an
> example Chris Steele-Perkins of Magnum fame used it.
>
> I don't have any experience with either of these lenses. Maybe these
> testresults says more of test procedures than the lenses...
>
> Ulf Westerberg
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