All of which reminds us just how locked into zooms we are these days.
There is of course the Leica 25mm 1.4.
That doesn't seem to have caused much of a ripple.
Andrew Fildes
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On 21/10/2007, at 7:52 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> The DZ 50/2 macro is a bit lighter than its Zuiko 50/2 macro cousin
> (300
> vs 320g) despite having a couple extra elements. But I'm sure what
> Oly
> would prefer that we compare would be the Zuiko 90/2 at 550g as the
> nearest comparable focal length given the 2X crop factor.
>
> But with that sort of thinking consider the lenses that are missing:
> 4mm f/2.8 fisheye
> 8mm f/3.5 fisheye
> 9mm f/3.5
> 10.5mm f/2
> 10.5mm f/3.5
> 12mm f/2
> 12mm f/2.8
> 12mm f/3.5 shift
> 14mm f/2
> 14mm f/2.8
> 14mm f/3.5
> 17mm f/2
> 17mm f/2.8
> 17mm f/2.8 shift
> 20mm f/2
> 25mm f/1.2
> 25mm f/1.4
> 25mm f/1.8
> 25mm f/2 macro
> 25mm f/3.5 macro
> 27.5mm f/1.2
> 42.5mm f/2
> 50mm f/2.8
> That's enough. There are a lot more.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Wiliam Wagenaar wrote:
>> Khen Lim wrote:
>>
>> ----
>>> As for the 4:3 advantages of being lighter and compact,
>>> there are points I like to make here. On paper these advantages
>>> are obvious but in reality, it does look like they might not have
>>> delivered as much of these.
>> -----
>>
>> Although I understand most physical limitations, I still have a hard
>> time understanding why the DZuikos are so much larger than the
>> OM-zuikos, the 35 and 50mm macro's being the exeptions here. In my
>> physics book a 50mm/2 for 4/3 format could be made smaller than a
>> 50mm/2
>> for 35mm film format. Could you or anyone else please elaborate on
>> that?
>> I can understand that the zooms are larger than fixed foacl length
>> lenses, but they seem quite bulky to me, while the OM lenses
>> really were
>> small.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Wiliam Wagenaar
>>
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