The ranking by quality AND weight heaviest and best quality to
lightest and least quality is:
3.6
3.5 - 4.5
4
3.5 - 4.8 (actually made by Cosina)
I have the 3.5 - 4.5 and it takes very nice sharp and contrasty pics,
and the size and weight is a real advantage for travel and other
occasions when you do not want to be weighted down. It is barely
bigger than a 50mm.
--- Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 03:00 PM, Siddiq wrote:
>
> > worse in what sense? is there a compelling reason to get the
> constant
> > aperture vs the 3.5-4.5 one?
>
> For image quality from top to bottom in that zoom range I think it
> would go 3.6, 4, 3.5-4.5. Same rank for size and weight. The 3.6
> was
> the deluxe highest quality lens when it came out and was Olympus'
> best
> effort. Had a very nice hood which is difficult to find that
> fastened
> farther up the barrel and the lens zoomed inside the hood giving
> variable angle shading to the lens wide at wide angles and narrow
> at
> telephoto. Besides its good resolution the images from it have a
> kind
> of subtle, silky quality to them that is beautiful, but hard to pin
>
> down.
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
>
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Don Shedrick
http://groups.msn.com/firstlightimaging
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