On Dec 19, 2007 12:35 PM, Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I remember years ago when the OM system was still in production seeing
> consumer reports articles on 35mm cameras and lenses and they always rated
> Olympus lenses as average to below average in sharpness, with Nikon and
> Canon always getting the high ratings. I had Nikon and Olympus stuff at the
> time and remember thinking that CR must be biased or crazy cause I didn't
> see any superiority in the Nikon lenses I had compared to my Olympus
> equivilants (the 50mm f1.8 was one in particular I remember that CR didn't
> like from Olympus).
If we assume they were actually testing, it was probably that they
were only testing center sharpness. Photodo did the same thing IIRC,
and as a result Zuikos came up shorter than in tests that also
factored in corner sharpness.
Joel W.
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