The Zuiko Digital 7-14mm is an optical masterpeice, and before Nikon's
14-24mm came to steal the wide-angle shot, it could be considered the
best wide-angle zoom in existence. Of course, as you know Phillipe,
the 7-14mm is a huge lens, heavy, and one cannot mount optical filters
in front of that fisheye-like bulbous front element. The Panasonic
7-14mm, on the other hand, is tiny, made mostly from plastic, and is
built in line with most current micro-four-thirds zooms (and the
M.Zuiko 17mm) in that it's optically a piece a piece of junk (in all
aspects except resolution, which seems decent), relying on software
corrections for the rest.
I guess the choice is yours :-)
Big, expensive, and good, or small and bad, but with software
corrections (to the non-discerning eye) a pretty nice lens nevertheless.
On 17 Nov 2009, at 2:45 PM, Philippe Amard wrote:
> And I'm curious to know about the micro 7-14 too.
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