Re: [OM] Zuiko 200mm f/4

[Winsor Crosby]

I know how it changed and it is not far from the original subject.
Someone suggested that a competent lens could not be designed with 5
elements like the 200/4. It went from there.  Someone should have
changed the subject, but then again you did not change the subject to
something like "Dismay over Lack of Subject/Discussion Congruence".
:-)

Winsor


> What does any of this text have to do with the subject????  You ask a
> question about radial tires, and next thing people are talking about
> chocolate cake.
>
> Bryan Pilati
> OM-2n; IS-3
> Va-USA
> Disclaimer:  I'm always joking
> unless I should be serious.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 11:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Zuiko 200mm f/4
>
>
> >  While many Olympus compact cameras claimed a glass aspherical element,
> this
> >  one does not, I think the lens elements of this camera is plastic. I never
> >  like compact point and shoot AF camera, you never know where it is
> focusing.
> >  For AF compacts I never please with the Epic, it has very high focusing
> >  error rate and not so good contrast for prints (but it is sharp). The
> >  Yashica T4 is better in this area but has the same focusing problem, my 80
> >  years old father took it to a trip with the T4 and ISO200 film, end up
> with
> >  700f picture out of focus, all of them focused to the background even
> the
> >  subject (my mother) was dead center, may be she was a bit small as the AF
> >  target, I think a fixed focus lens even perform better.
> >
> >  C.H.Ling
> >
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> >  From: <ALEXSCIFI@xxxxxxx>
> >
> >  > . "The incredibly sharp Oly Stylus Epic 2.8 is a 3 element."
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Correction, the 35F2.8 lens on the Stylus Epic is a 4 element
> design--one
> >  of
> >  > which is aspheric. And it is indeed a sharp lens!
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Alex
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California

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