Walt Wayman wrote:
The filters screw into the lens hood,
Same approach as the 18/3.5 Zuiko. Of course, it uses smaller 72mm filters.
which is a clamp-on affair.
I bought my lens from KEH without a hood. I then bought a new
hood from B&H, along with one of the newer Tamron 82mm lens caps,
the kind with the squeeze-to-release doohickey in the middle
They should have received some sort of camera industry award for that
lens cap design. It's only flaw is that it doesn't have a non slip
surface on the inner squeeze tabs, but that's easy to remedy (with or
without epoxy). My 35-105/3.5-4.5 and 135/4.5 both have Tamron caps. It
is virtually impossible to put an Oly cap on the 135mm with the hood on,
and almost as difficult on the 35-105mm, but really easy with the
Tamrons caps. Unfortunately, they don't make a 49mm cap. I've tried the
Hams 49mm cap with central squeeze tabs, but the design is poor and it's
hard to use.
........Nice lens, though. It's great for that little bit extra the Zuiko
21 won't cover.
The 18/3.5 appears from tests I've seen to be a better lens, in addition
to being smaller and lighter. I'm not sure in practice how significant
the 1mm diff is.
Moose
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