Gee, Lama, you've been really unlucky. I've got 20-something
Zuikos, only two of them borderline slouches: a 50/1.8 silvernose
and a 135/2.8. They've both become paperweights.
I did, once upon a time, long, long ago, have an under-performing
28/2, too, although I didn't realize it until my good lady wife
found something she thought was really unusual and cool and got it
here from France off *Bay and gave it to me for my birthday a few
years back: a 28/2.8 Carl Zeiss Jena in OM mount. I hated to part
with the Zuiko, but I traded it for a still-working, but now
epoxied because I broke it, T Power Control 1. There may have
been something wrong with the Zuiko, and maybe yours was once
mine. But despite the pervailing and occasionally slanderously
expressed low opinion of the Jena stuff, this little jewel was
easily the better lens of the two. That's why I still have it.
Walt
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:57:14 -0500
>The Zuiko 28/3.5 I had was a big-time slouch. My Zuiko 28/2 was
a slouch. The 200/4 was a big-time slouch too.
>
>All of the non-miJ 50s I've had were slouches. (I guess I've had
3 by now.) Look at Gary's tests of the 50s. God bless him, he
>just kept testing them, as if to say, "We must have a winner one
day!" The finest one doesn't come close to the performance of the
>3.6 zoom, a *more modern design*.
>
>My 100/2.8 was a great lens and the 135/3.5 was good too. So, if
I scored my Zuikos on a slouch/total basis, 6/8 were slouches. In
>my opinion, there was room for improvement in sharpness, yeah.
The fit and finish are really beautiful but they're tools to me.
If
>I had not found test results on the web that pointed me to
sharper 3-party lenses, I might have jumped into an EOS film body
by now.
>Not that I'm complaining... anymore.
>
>ducking for cover,
>Lama
>
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