Brice1021@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I owned a 65-200 for about 5 years. I was always pleased with the photos I
> took with it. It was a nice complement to my 35-70 when traveling light.
> However, the lens I had didn?t have the best mechanical quality. The zooming
> had some play in the mechanism that shifted the focus. This was very
> noticeable when I would use the split prism to focus on a vertical line and
> then zoom. You could see the line break as well as feel the play in the push-
> pull mechanism. OLY replaced the zoom bushings for free but it didn?t help
> that much.
>
> The lens had a low serial no. (104xxx); an early production lens? Someone
> posted last summer that there may have been two versions of this lens. If so,
> maybe the zooming was improved on version 2.
> Any other 65-200 owners have a sloppy zoom ring?
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I was looking at a used one at a local camera shop and found the same problem.
The focus shifted considerably as I went through the zoom range. I asked the
salesperson about this - and it was his thought that lens was a variable focus
zoom. I gather that is not the case.
In comparison to my T*k*n* 70-210 f4-5.6 the lens (though larger) appeared
noticeably brighter.
Ralph
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