I think Oly is not alone. Most lens development seems to be going to
zooms and fast, long primes. The disadvantage of the e-1 is that there
is no system of AF lenses for 35mm already there for people who want
them as there is with some other makers. The result, though, is that
even with systems with a lot of 35mm legacy primes is that their design
may not be very good with a sensor instead of film and that their
technology is also old. I have not looked at Canon's site, but if you
look at the lens site for Nikon Japan you will find that the MTFs for
the recent zoom lenses are better than the MTF of the primes, even the
ones with outstanding reputations.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Feb 20, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Andrew McPhee wrote:
> No you guys are not the last two - count me in as well, I've always
> had a
> zoom phobia. And this is another reason digicams don't interest me.
> They
> all seem to use zooms, for example of the nine lenses on offer for the
> E-1
> six are zooms and none of the primes go below 50mm (OM equiv. of
> 100mm).
>
> The zoom-prime ratio may be improving (3 new of each slated for
> release in
> 2005) but I fail to understand if this is Olympus' 'Pro' system why
> primes
> aren't in the majority - since when have pro photographers used
> predominantly zoom lenses? Anyone care to enlighten me on this?
>
> Andrew McPhee
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