[OM] Re: lenses, opinions and recommendations.

[Piers Hemy]

Paddy

I suspect that you mean Tokina in place of Tonika?

Both Tokina and Sigma have had good words said about some of their lenses -
I have no significant experience of either brand, and zero experience with
the particular lenses you mentioned.  I would not set much store by the
Hanimex lens. 

As Charlie has already suggested, the Zuiko lenses *are* worth looking at,
and the standardisaiton on filter sizes could be a worthwhile factor to
offset their higher cost.  They also tend to be noticeably more compact than
off-brand lenses, thus saving the cost of a larger bag to hold all the
lenses you are going to acquire (and do not be mistaken, you *will*).

But the Zuiko 21mm lenses (21/3.5 and 21/2) seem to have found a new lease
of life amongst users of a different brand digital camera, whose name I
canont bring myself to say.  As a consequnce, they can get rather pricey
(same goes for the 18/3.5).  This, you might also want to search the
archives at http://lists.tako.de for views on the Vivitar, Tamron SP and
Phoenix/Samyang wide zooms, which cover 19-35, 24-48 and 18-28 respectively.
And look out for FS notices on list (I have an inkling that at least two of
them might be for sale). ;-)

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Piers 

 
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Patrick Moore
Sent: 22 September 2005 21:40
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Subject: [OM] lenses, opinions and recommendations.


Hello all,

I'm fairly new to this OM lark,  having only starting to make use of my
Dad's old OM-1 a few months ago (and currently waiting on an OM­2SP coming
back from repair). After running away from my digital camera because there
was no satisfaction in the taking. (I've an old Kiev RF here which is great
fun to use, but a pain as the meter is stuck on the top)

Anyway, I've got a mild selection of lenses here and I'd like to know other
peoples opinions of them in general and what sort of things I should be
looking for next. ;)

I've got a ubiquitous Zuiko 50mm 1.8 which is always a pleasure to use, but
at other focal lengths I have:

Hanimex 28mm F2.8 (55mm filter thread).
Tonika 200mm F3.5
Sigma 28­70mm F3.5~4.5 Zoom-E Multicoated (52mm filter) Sigma 70-210mm
F3.5~4.5 APO Zoom.

The 70-210 zoom is rather battered and is in need of a service, but as I
only paid £3.77 for it with a 2x teleconverter I'm not that worried if it's
BER. 

I do want a wider lens, maybe something at 21mm, but I realise these are
relatively rare.  I'm not a huge telephoto user and like playing around with
street scenes and people and seem to spent time taking photos in low light
with B&W film (though falling back to Fuji Superia when colours demand it
...
http://the.earth.li/~paddy/cgi-bin/indiv.pl?dir=kinnegoe_film2&photo=cnv0000
7.jpg
is one of my more successful guesses at longer exposure photography.  I'd
recommend not looking through the rest if you value your taste and senses as
most are just snapshots up for the pleasure of my friends rather than a
display of works of art, and photographs of not...  Though you are more than
welcome if you feel the need.


Anyway, thanks for your time and indulgence, and I shall hopefully hear some
more information from soon.

atb,

paddy

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