Joel,
Thanks you for sharing your experience & opinion. I have 35-80/2.8, I
don't want to get another zoom lens as similar focus length now.
Besides, 470g of 35-105 is not really light. I much concern the
weight since I took my 35-80/2.8 in my China trips, I found that too
heavy for my camera with motor which belonging on my neck.
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Michael
Palm, Linux, Olympus, Mac user
在 21 Jan 2007 8:53 PM 時，Joel Wilcox 寫到：
>
> On 1/20/07, Michael Wong <mialop@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Joel,
>> I agree that zoom lens is more convenient. I always take my 35-80/2.8
>> to my China trip. Honestly to say, it's quiet heavy when you belong
>> it with camera & motor. Recently, I got an OM-1n. The motor fails to
>> work properly with the OM-1n. Therefore, I don't think it's a good
>> balance to put my 35-80/2.8 onto my OM-1n without motor. As my idea,
>> a light combination for my hiking photography as OM-1n without motor,
>> 24/2, 35/2, 50/1.2 & 85/2.
>>
>> Any idea for it?
>
> I think someone suggested the 35-70/3.5-4.5. That doesn't mean you
> shouldn't have an 85/2, and my comments about the 35-80 weren't meant
> to suggest it.
>
> I like zooms, and always have, which is certainly fortunate in the
> digital era. I have to confess to also having the Z 35-105, which is
> really just a smidgeon less wonderful than the 35-80 for normal
> things, but of course it has the extra reach to 105 and a very handy
> close-focusing capability. My hiking kit would include that and a 24
> or 21 and a 135 or 200 if I had the luxury of carrying more than just
> the zoom. 95% of my shots outdoors are apt to fall within the range
> of the 35-105. Not saying yours will, but it sounds like they do from
> the lenses you list.
>
> Whatever the weight differential between the 35/50/85 combo and the
> 35-80 (or 35-105), it can't be much. But the ability to zoom rather
> than have to change lenses means you spend your time at photography
> rather than mechanics in the field. Those are my thoughts. Some
> people love primes so dearly that they zoom with their feet and don't
> think a thing about the trouble of changing lenses. Me, I'd rather
> put the energy into carrying a tripod and one lens that does it all
> (or does most of it).
>
> Joel W.
>
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