As far as I remember, when Modern Photography tested the iS-1 (but it might
have been the iS-3), they got Olympus to extract the lens and set it up on
a lensboard for testing. After testing, they said that it was a great lens
for the money, with a free camera thrown in....
Sincerely,
Roger Key
Way back in the days of SLRs being bundled with a
50/1.8, the manufacturers made sure that this
common-as-dirt lens was supurb because that was the
one lens that all the photo-rags used to compare
cameras with. Nowdays, they slap the cheaziest zoom on
there and promote features instead.
Remember, the IS-3 comes bundled with a lens too. Why
Pentax chose to bundle with such a cheeseball lens is
beyond me. I was really intruigued by the camera--as
it really was a nice camera. I imagine that quality
lenses would make this puppy shine.
But that new Contax digital body with full-frame
sensor is looking quite interesting. Maybe have an
Aria or two in the bag too for "analog" capture.
AG-Schnozz
> However comparing that with the results of a Zuiko
> (and I do believe that
> the lenses in the IS'es are quite good) is obviously
> not fair. Try the IS
> (or any OM with your choise of Zuiko) and compare
> with a Pentax with a
> lens of some quality. I believe that your results
> would be very different.
>
> I'll mirror you by saying "this is not a blanket
> praise of Pentax". I just
> think that your particular comparison may be a bit
> unfair.
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