From: Winsor Crosby
Yet the lens is over $1000 new, and not far used. Anyone that can actually
afford that might expect those problems to have been solved. Especially
when there are other comparable non-Zuiko lenses for small fractions of
the cost & possibly better in these regards.
Larry
Wasn't this the lens that Popular Photography tested and said was the best
lens of this type they had ever tested? It is an excellent general use,
fast zoom. By contrast the 35 shift lens was designed for architecture.
Expecting a general use zoom to exceed the performance of a single focal
length, specialized lens in the area of its specialization seems to me to
not be realistic. If that quality is important, then maybe there is a
reason for the historical difficulty of Olympus in selling zooms to its OM
users.
ALL standard zooms show distortion of some sort, especially at the wide
angle side. This includes the high price zooms from Canon, Nikon, Leica,
Minolta, pentax as well as Zuiko. It's a design tradeoff for the
flexibility which zooms give.
The high price comes from the five high refractive index element, the LD
element, the close focusing design and the professional chassis duarability.
It is unreasonable to demand no distortion in the zoom when nobody else
can do it.
John
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